- you 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
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you 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 … English terms dictionary
you can't have your cake and eat it — (too) proverb you can t enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives … Useful english dictionary
have 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! … English idioms
have (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… … New idioms dictionary
Have 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… … Wikipedia
have 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./ … Dictionary of American idioms
have 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./ … Dictionary of American idioms
have\ 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 … Словарь американских идиом
cake — ► NOUN 1) an item of soft sweet food made from baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, and sugar. 2) a flat, round item of savoury food that is baked or fried. 3) the amount of money available for sharing: a fair slice of the education cake. ► VERB … English terms dictionary
cake — cake1 W3S2 [keık] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Old Norse; Origin: kaka] 1.) [U and C] a soft sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs ▪ cake and ice cream ▪ chocolate cake birthday/wedding/Christmas cake ▪ Do you want some… … Dictionary of contemporary English
