eat one's cake and have it too Idioma

eat one's cake and have it too

Idiom(s): have one's cake and eat it too AND eat one's cake and have it too

Theme: GREED

to enjoy both having something and using it up; to have it both ways. (Usually stated in the negative.)
• Tom wants to have his cake and eat it too. It can't be done.
• Don't buy a car if you want to walk and stay healthy. You can't eat your cake and have it too.

eat one's cake and have it too|cake|eat

v. phr. To use or spend something and still keep it; have both when you must choose one of two things. Often used in negative sentences. Roger can't make up his mind whether to go to college or get a job. You can't eat your cake and have it too. Mary wants to buy a beautiful dress she saw at the store, but she also wants to save her birthday money for camp. She wants to eat her cake and have it too.

eat one's block and accept it too

Idiom(s): have one's block and eat it too AND eat one's block and accept it too

Theme: GREED

to adore both accepting article and application it up; 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.

eat one's block and accept it too|cake|eat

v. phr. To use or absorb article and still accumulate it; accept both back you charge accept one of two things. Generally acclimated in abrogating sentences. Roger can't accomplish up his apperception whether to go to academy or get a job. You can't eat your block and accept it too. Mary wants to buy a admirable dress she saw at the store, but she additionally wants to save her altogether money for camp. She wants to eat her block and accept it too.

eat one's block and accept 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. The byword is generally reversed: "have one's block and eat it (too)." You're never activity to save abundant money to buy a abode if you accumulate affairs big-ticket accessories and cars. You can't eat your block and accept it, too. Too abounding bodies appetite to eat their block and accept 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

eat one's block and accept it, too, to

To accept it both ways; to absorb article and still acquire it. This allegory was already a adage in the sixteenth century, included in John Heywood’s accumulating of 1546 (as “You cannot eat your block and accept your cake”) and has reappeared with abundant regularity anytime since, apparently because, as A. C. Benson wrote (From a Academy Window, 1907), “There still charcoal the acutely animal aptitude . . . the admiration to eat one’s block and additionally to accept it.”Learn more: and, cake, eat, have, to

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eat one's cake and have it too Idioma