you can't have your cake and eat
1you can't have your cake and eat it — This idiom means that you can t have things both ways. For example, you can t have very low taxes and a high standard of state care …
2you can't have your cake and eat it — ► you can t have your cake and eat it (too) proverb you can t enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives. Main Entry: ↑cake …
3you can't have your cake and eat it — (too) proverb you can t enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives …
4you can't have your cake and eat it too — ► you can t have your cake and eat it (too) proverb you can t enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives. Main Entry: ↑cake …
5You can't have your cake and eat it — This idiom means that you can t have things both ways. For example, you can t have very low taxes and a high standard of state care …
6have (your) cake and eat it (too) — to have or do two good things that it is usually impossible to have or do at the same time. He wants to have his cake and eat it. He wants the security of marriage and the excitement of affairs. You can t have your cake and eat it. If you want… …
7have your cake and eat it, too — have something after you have eaten or spent it, have it both ways You want to spend your money and still have it. You can t have your cake and eat it, too! …
8Have 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… …
9have 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./ …
10have 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./ …
