have cake and eat it too Idiom, Proverb

a fine-toothed comb

a careful search, a search for a detail She read the file carefully - went over it with a fine-toothed comb.

a sweet tooth

a need to eat candy, a craving for sugar After dinner we'll serve mints. Daddy has a sweet tooth, eh.

an eye for an eye (a tooth for a tooth)

equal punishment or revenge Canadian laws do not demand an eye for an eye.

darn tooting

that is true, I agree, darn right """They still talk about the winter of 1907, don't they, Helmer?"" ""Darn tootin'! It was a cold one!"""

eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

every crime or injury should be punished or paid back Some politicians are always calling for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth when they hear of a terrible crime.

fight tooth and nail

fight fiercely or with all one

fine-tooth comb

great care, careful attention so as not to miss anything We went over the room with a fine-tooth comb but were unable to find the missing credit card.

fine-toothed comb

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go too far

become too excited, get carried away Some soccer fans go too far. They fight and cause damage.

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!

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

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have to do with have to go have to go some have to hand it to you have two strikes against one have what it takes have you for breakfast have you over have your cake and eat it, too have your period haven't got a hope haven't got a hope in hell haven't got the stomach for it haven't seen hide nor hair havoc strikes hawk haywire