2006-11-29 00:38:50 · 7 answers · asked by Clementina82 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
You can't have it both ways?
2006-11-29 01:00:27 · answer #1 · answered by george 4 · 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 have 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.
2006-11-29 00:50:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
" If you eat your cake, you no longer have your cake, because you already ate it."
Also, "Give and take."
HANK (Josh)
2006-11-29 00:46:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't have the best of both worlds.
2006-11-29 00:42:08 · answer #4 · answered by caroline j 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have your bread buttered on both sides
2006-11-29 00:41:07 · answer #5 · answered by Tannas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't have your pie and eat it too.
2006-11-29 00:41:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can't have your kayak and heat it too
lol
:-)
2006-11-29 08:22:56 · answer #7 · answered by alpha mutt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋