English-French translations for vicious circle

• cercle vicieux
  Comment casser ce cercle vicieux? How can we break the vicious circle?
  Nous devons briser ce cercle vicieux. We have to break this vicious circle.
  Toute cette situation est un cercle vicieux. This whole situation is a vicious circle.

Definition of vicious circle

• A situation in which the solution to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one

Related words

• vicious
• vicious cycle
• viciousness
• viciously