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    What does "You can't have your cake and eat it too" mean?

    +1  Views: 371 Answers: 3 Posted: 14 years ago
    IamPamela313

    Once you've eaten your cake, you won't have it any more. :-)

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    Meaning you can't have everything your own way.

    Robin Hood

    Then what does the cake part have to do with it?
    pythonlover

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    Not sure why the word "cake" is used.

    You can't have it both ways:  like being married and still have a girl friend.

    You can't have your cake and eat it, too.  Literally, it seems to imply that if you want your cake, you can't eat it .  If you ate it,  you wouldn't have it anymore.  So maybe that means you may get to have something your way, but you have to give up something in order to have that thing your way. A really good example would be "friends with benefits".....you want the relationship with that person, but you risk the friendship by having the relationship.


    Perhaps "cake" was used because most of us perk up and pay attention when someone says "CAKE".



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