question ! I don't get this saying I mean if you have cake then why wouldn't you eat it ?????
someone please explain to me . . .
2006-06-13 16:46:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
It means they want something both ways.
2006-06-13 16:49:39 · answer #1 · answered by BobTheBizGuru 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's like this: if you eat your cake it'll be gone, so you can't HAVE your cake and EAT it too. You can't have both. You either let it sit there looking delicious or you eat it and the experience is over - unless you have an unending supply of cake, in which case you could have your cake and eat it too.
Now apply that to women saying a man wants to "have his cake and eat it too." Well, the mistress is the "cake," now if he eats that cake or otherwise indulges in that cake, his wife will not be around long and there's no guarantee that the mistress will either, in which case he will have had his cake, eaten it and now---no more cake! So he couldn't both "have" his cake and "eat it" too.
2006-06-13 23:57:35 · answer #2 · answered by nquizzitiv 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To wish to have one's cake and eat it too (sometimes eat one's cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English idiomatic proverb, or figure of speech.
The phrase's earliest recording is from 1546 as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?", alluding to the impossibility of eating your cake and still having it afterwards; the modern version (where the clauses are reversed) is a corruption which was first signaled in 1812.
Comedian George Carlin once critiqued this idiom by saying, "When people say, 'Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too.' What good is a cake you can't eat? What should I eat, someone else's cake instead?". Of course, in the original correct form (eat your cake and have it too), Carlin's critique does not apply.
2006-06-13 23:51:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Selfish is what it means...
the person wants their cake and to eat it, not sharing with anyone else.
Wouldn't it be rude to have a birthday party and the birthday person eats the whole cake without sharing? Yes.
2006-06-17 04:12:46 · answer #4 · answered by Jennifer M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The saying means that you want to eat the cake, but still see it infront of you after you enjoyed ( which is impossible). It means you want the pleasure of seeing the whole beautiful cake AND tasting it at the same time......lol
2006-06-13 23:51:00 · answer #5 · answered by loeviolinluv 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh I know. I don't get it either. When I have my cake I like to eat it. Someone else might eat it if I don't.
2006-06-14 01:39:41 · answer #6 · answered by itty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can think of other things to do with cake but there might be children reading this.
2006-06-14 15:15:00 · answer #7 · answered by tman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its completly simple it mean thst the person wants to eat the cake but dont want cake to get finish..
2006-06-16 15:03:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your taking it to literally, in fact it means to have the best of both worlds,
Hey but you look like an intelligent woman, you mean you could´nt work it out! or are you just looking for a bit of attention? (seems like police recruiting is a little lax theses days)
2006-06-15 12:50:02 · answer #9 · answered by Conor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Means.. Grab the opportunity
2006-06-13 23:54:15 · answer #10 · answered by Santosh K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that saying means that you're asking for something unreasonable. for example
cheating on a girlfriend and expecting her to stay with you whiile you're still cheating
The cheating part is having your cake,
the part where he expects you to stay with them
thats the eating it too...
2006-06-13 23:52:39 · answer #11 · answered by sansjazz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋