Want Your Cake And Eat It

Want Your Cake And Eat It. Top 10 English sayings Nuts You know what they say: You can't have your cake and eat it, too! My girlfriend and I really want a house with a lot of land and only a few neighbors that's also super close to everything in town [1] The proverb literally means "you cannot simultaneously retain possession of a cake and eat it, too"

It is first recorded in A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the englishe tongue compacte in a matter concernyng two maner. Once again, the expression appears in the form 'cannot eat your cat and have it', rather than 'cannot have your cake and eat it'

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He liked spending Saturdays with his friends, so what would he do? You can't have your cake and eat it (too) is a popular English idiomatic proverb or figure of speech But as Davies' use of quotation marks around the proverb implies, clearly 'cannot eat your cake and have it' was already received wisdom by 1611

Have Your Cake And Eat It Too Greeting Card The Bullish Store. Example: Josh was offered a promotion at his job, but if he accepts it, he would have to work on Saturdays [1] The proverb literally means "you cannot simultaneously retain possession of a cake and eat it, too"

HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO CARD. It is a classic case of wanting to have your cake and eat it too It can be used to say that one cannot have two incompatible things, or that one should not try to have.