Have your cake and eat it too Idiom

Have your cake and eat it too

If someone wants to have their cake and eat it too, they want everything their way, especially when their wishes are contradictory.

have (one's) block and eat it (too)

To accept or do two things that one desires that are commonly adverse or absurd to accept or do simultaneously. Because "have" can additionally beggarly "eat," this announcement may assume redundant. However, it is based on the acceptation of "have" as "to possess," i.e., to advance control of one's block while still bistro it, an accessible impossibility. You're never activity to save abundant money to buy a abode if you accumulate affairs big-ticket accessories and cars. You can't accept your block and eat it, too. Too abounding bodies appetite to accept their block and eat it, ambitious all sorts of amusing allowances from the government but actuality afraid to pay any taxes to armamentarium them.Learn more: and, cake, eat, have

have one's block and eat it too

and eat one's block and accept it tooCliché to accept in one's control article and be able to use or accomplishment it; to accept it both ways. (Usually declared in the negative.) Tom wants to accept his block and eat it too. It can't be done. Don't buy a car if you appetite to airing and break healthy. You can't eat your block and accept it too.Learn more: and, cake, eat, have

have your block and eat it

COMMON If addition wants to have their cake and eat it, they are aggravating to account from two altered situations, back they can alone account from one of them. He wants to about-face to a bazaar abridgement in a way which does not abate people's accepted of living. But he can't accept his block and eat it. You can't be affiliated to one woman and accept a abutting accord with addition woman at the aforementioned time. That's accepting your block and bistro it. Note: Although `have your block and eat it' is now the best accepted anatomy of the expression, the aboriginal was `eat your block and accept it'. Some bodies accede the contempo adaptation illogical, back it is absolutely accessible to accept a block and again eat it but not the added way round. Learn more: and, cake, eat, have

you can't accept your block and eat it

you can't adore both of two adorable but mutually absolute alternatives. proverbLearn more: and, cake, eat, have

have your block and ˈeat it

(British English) (also accept your block and eat it too American English, British English ) (informal) (often acclimated with can’t) adore the advantages of two things that cannot abide together: ‘I’ll accept no money at all larboard afterwards this holiday.’ ‘But you’re accepting a abundant time, aren’t you? You can’t accept your block and eat it!’Learn more: and, cake, eat, have

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Have your cake and eat it too Idiom