You can have your cake and eat it too?????

Question

OK, I know what people mean when they say this. But what does it REALLY mean? If it's my cake, I should be able to eat it.

Answer 1

Once you eat it, you no longer have it. That is what it means. You can eat it, or you can have it, you can not do both.

Answer 2

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.

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.

Answer 3

Of course, it is your cake after all. I love chocolate cake

Answer 4

It means, "let them eat cake.", but I don't know what the hell that means.

Answer 5

Well, if you eat the cake, you won't have it anymore.

Answer 6

Getting everything you want. Like a wife and a g/f