this phrase makes no sense?

Question

have your cake, and eat it to

jeez it was just a spelling error i know it was suposed to be too as in also

Answer 1

that you can eat your cake and not have it, have your cake and not eat it, but the trick is to "eat your cake and have it too."

Answer 2

Thx for correcting your spelling! Your phrase means that you have to choose between two things, you cannot have it both ways. You can either look at the pretty cake or eat it and see how yummy it is. Once you eat it, you will not be able to go back and look at the cake, but if you do nothing but look at it, you won't ever know how it tastes.

Answer 3

basically it means you cannot always possess what you want.
So if you want your cake and thus eat it and taste it you cannot still possess it because it is no longer there.

Or
"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."

Answer 4

The saying is "Have your cake, and it it TOO", as in "also".

It means that you have what you wanted (the cake), plus even more than you wanted (getting to eat it).

It's just an old saying like "A penny saved is a penny earned" or "A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush".

They aren't really relevant today.

Answer 5

It is an adage. Adages have been past down for centuries and make up the greater part of every language. They are created everyday, so obviously they are very important to the progression of any language. One could easily say that you want things to always go your way, but it is far better to say "Have your cake and eat it to." It shows that the person is selfish and everything or decision must center around him or her.

Answer 6

From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman:
"You can't have your cake and eat it too -- One can't use something up and still have it to enjoy. This proverb was recorded in the book of proverbs by John Heywood in 1546, and is first attested in the United States in the 1742 'Colonial Records of Georgia' in 'Original Papers, 1735-1752.' The adage is found in varying forms: You can't eat your cake and have it too. You can't have everything and eat it too; Eat your cake and have the crumbs in bed with you, etc. ..."

Answer 7

In weddings the cake was there as kind of symbol but when you eat it too it means you're really going to live through all the challenges of life.... I just made that up. seemed plausible.

Answer 8

if you eat your cake, then you no longer have it, coz it's been eaten and
if you have your cake, you only have it until it's eaten, then you no longer have it. Having and eating are mutually exclusive propositions and this is what the expression refers to....a person wanting 2 different conditions simultaneously which cannot both occur simultaneously

Answer 9

Its kinda like love... the more you give away the more you keep.
Like... You can't have your cake and eat it too. unless you have two identical cakes. That would be trickery and deceptive

Answer 10

Yes it does. I remember struggling with this one too. If you eat your cake, then you can't still HAVE your cake.

Answer 11

it means:
if u start sumthin finish it, dont go buy a cake n then not eat it,
also
it means:
go out n do sumthin that is wat u wanna do not wat others thnk,
u got the cake so u can eat it or do wateva u want..its urs,
also
it means:
a prize on top of a prize, not only can u hav the cake u can eat it,
but:
if sum1 sez: u cant hav ur cake n eat it to
that means:
u hav freedom but u cant do watva u want,
dont go steal a cake n thro it n sum1s face,