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Duncanchina Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
chicken-and-egg element?
Would anybody please be so kind as to tell me the meaning of the sentence in red? Help is always appreciated!
original text:
Students in substance-free housing, the study found, were less likely to experience alcohol-related problems, like getting behind in schoolwork, damaging property, getting into trouble with the police or riding with a drunken driver.
There is, of course, a chicken-and-egg element to these findings. Students hoping for a college experience that bears some relationship to "Animal House" are not likely to opt for substance-free housing.
original text:
Students in substance-free housing, the study found, were less likely to experience alcohol-related problems, like getting behind in schoolwork, damaging property, getting into trouble with the police or riding with a drunken driver.
There is, of course, a chicken-and-egg element to these findings. Students hoping for a college experience that bears some relationship to "Animal House" are not likely to opt for substance-free housing.
Top answer
These findings contain an element which reminds us of the "chicken and egg" question, that is, the question of which appeared first in nature, the chicken or the egg. Chickens produce eggs and eggs produce chickens. Which came first?
- These findings contain an element which reminds us of the "chicken and egg" question, that is, the question of which appeared first in nature, the chicken or the egg.
- Chickens produce eggs and eggs produce chickens.
- Which came first?
- Students who choose to live in housing where alcohol is prohibited don't experience alcohol-related problems.
- Students who don't want to experience alcohol-related problems choose to live in housing where alcohol is prohibited.
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These findings contain an element which reminds us of the "chicken and egg" question, that is, the question of which appeared first in nature, the chicken or the egg. Chickens produce eggs and eggs produce chickens. Which came first?
Students who choose to live in housing where alcohol is prohibited don't experience alcohol-related problems.
Students who don't want to experi
Students who choose to live in housing where alcohol is prohibited don't experience alcohol-related problems.
Students who don't want to experi
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thank you, CalifJim! This helps a lot!
in fact in Chinese we also have the same phrase with the same meaning, and i am not sure if it is borrowed from english, so that's why i post this thread.thank you so much again!
DuncanChina
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I'm not surprised you have a similar phrase.
Chickens and eggs have been around a lot longer than both the Chinese and the English languages!
Chickens and eggs have been around a lot longer than both the Chinese and the English languages!
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And we have it in Persian as well! So, the new question is who thought about chicken and egg first! And the second one is which one really existed first, chicken or egg?!
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Who thought of it first? That's easy. The chicken! (Eggs can't think!)
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