have your cake and eat it, too
2007-02-07 12:05:37 · 22 answers · asked by Kel Kel 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Basically, "enjoy!"
2007-02-07 12:08:10 · answer #1 · answered by mks 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To have your cake means to keep it somewhere because cakes are pretty to look at and were once valued for that. Eating the cake would mean you no longer have it.
2007-02-07 12:10:00 · answer #2 · answered by StormyC 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The original and only sensible version of this saying is “You can’t eat your cake and have it too,” meaning that if you eat your cake you won’t have it any more. People get confused because we use the expression “have some cake” to mean “eat some cake,” and they therefore misunderstand what “have” means in this expression.
2007-02-07 12:09:12 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
refers to being in a relationship with someone and having a boy/girlfriend on the side.
Cake is someone, eating it too is the person on the side.
2007-02-07 12:23:19 · answer #4 · answered by rosey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"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. ..."
2007-02-07 12:09:54 · answer #5 · answered by Crash 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have your cake and eat it too means you can have somthing and like it too.
2007-02-07 12:09:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 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.
(from Wikepedia)
2007-02-07 12:08:52 · answer #7 · answered by Rotten Johnny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you get a cake and you eat it
2007-02-07 12:08:43 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ ltlsunny ♥ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, isn't that a stupid saying. If It's my cake shouldn't I be able to have it too?
2007-02-07 12:08:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means what it says so enjoy your cake
2007-02-07 12:09:08 · answer #10 · answered by claidifl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
suck my 8 inch cake
2007-02-07 12:08:43 · answer #11 · answered by Chunky & Lumpy 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋