want to have one's cake and eat it (to)
1want to have one's cake and eat it — want to have all benefits, is not willing to take the good with the bad …
2have one's cake and eat it too — {v. phr.} To enjoy two opposite advantages. * /You can either spend your money going to Europe or save it for a down payment on a house, but you can t do both. That would be having your cake and eating it, too./ …
3have one's cake and eat it too — {v. phr.} To enjoy two opposite advantages. * /You can either spend your money going to Europe or save it for a down payment on a house, but you can t do both. That would be having your cake and eating it, too./ …
4Have one's cake and eat it too — To wish to have one s cake and eat it too or simply have one s cake and eat it (sometimes eat one s cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English… …
5have one's cake and eat it too — verb To seek to have two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use). Do you seriously want to break up with her and still have sex with her? You cant have your cake… …
6have your cake and eat it — To say that someone wants to have their cake and eat it means that they want the advantages of two alternative situations when only one is possible. Jack enjoys his comfort but is always complaining about the cost of things. He can t have… …
7cake — [[t]ke͟ɪk[/t]] ♦♦♦ cakes, caking, caked 1) N VAR A cake is a sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, and fat in an oven. Cakes may be large and cut into slices or small and intended for one person only. ...a piece of cake...… …
8eat — [[t]i͟ːt[/t]] ♦♦ eats, eating, ate, eaten 1) VERB When you eat something, you put it into your mouth, chew it, and swallow it. [V n] She was eating a sandwich... [V n] The bananas should be eaten within two days …
9Eat Me, Drink Me — Studio album by Marilyn Manson Released June …
10have — /hav/; unstressed /heuhv, euhv/; for 26 usually /haf/, v. and auxiliary v., pres. sing. 1st pers. have, 2nd have or (Archaic) hast, 3rd has or (Archaic) hath, pres. pl …
