What the heck does that even mean? Damn right I do, what the hell is the point of having a cake if you can't eat it?
2006-09-26 04:36:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
It's just a figure of speech. A phrase. You're too greedy. You wan't the best of both worlds. Like you want to be married, but you want a boyfriend too.
A figure of speech is all it is.
2006-09-26 04:40:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Wikipedia "To wish to have one's cake and eat 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.
2006-09-26 11:42:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's funny - of course, you want to eat your cake, but do you want a piece or the whole thing? This phrase usually refers to someone who wants it all, despite the consequences. hey, that's like the entire world, oh, except for George Clooney, he's fighting for the people in Africa - bet they'd like some cake.
2006-09-26 11:40:49 · answer #3 · answered by Forever 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesnt just apply to cake it means having a good thing and having anotyher good thing on top of it which is eating it.by eating all the cake you are being selfish and hurting others.
2006-09-26 11:40:37 · answer #4 · answered by emmiemoo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means you're too greedy!you want more.
2006-09-26 11:38:18 · answer #5 · answered by djat20 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means: "you're too much greedy.....Get satisfaction by whatever you have"
2006-09-26 11:40:41 · answer #6 · answered by Pauli :) 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Means your GREEDY!!!!
2006-09-26 11:39:30 · answer #7 · answered by bobemac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋