you can't have you're cake and eat it.
Earlier today i saw my youngest daughter take a cake out of the cabinet ,and promptly eat it!
Upon removing said cake from cabinet,i deamed it to be her property,she then ate said cake,so to sum up she had her cake and she ate her cake.The statement is preposterous!Do you agree
2007-03-06 15:54:35 · 12 answers · asked by ''H'' 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
So you are saying, she had cake, and then she ATE it? That very same cake? Fu*cking unbelievable.
Everything I have ever known is a lie.
2007-03-06 15:58:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This saying has changed down the years. It has been recorded as early as the 1570's but then it was "You cannot eat your cake and have it still". For some reason in the early 1800's the word order got changed around so now it doesn't seem to make sense.
Yet oddly the meaning, (i.e. what you are suggesting or trying involves two mutually opposed concepts), remains when someone uses the expression. Isn't English a wonderful language!
2007-03-07 06:31:17 · answer #2 · answered by aldavion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I means that if you eat the cake you may have a full belly but the cake is gone. The analogy means if you consume all of sometihing you may enjoy it for a moment but after that there is no more. It could also be you can't have a dollar and spend it too or you can't have a tree and cut it down too.
2007-03-06 16:08:26 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the English language is full of saying s that have nothing to do with original meaning. Like: The whole nine yards, any one knows what it means. or: finding a needle in the hay stack. these have changed to fit the times. or change because some one did not like it's first meaning.
2007-03-10 09:03:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this is a bit tongue in cheek! but just in case it isn't I'll explain.........
If you have a cake and then you eat it, then you have no cake left. Ergo- you can't have your cake AND eat.
2007-03-06 16:12:20 · answer #5 · answered by ☞H.Potter☜ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have always thought so! I wish they had thought of another way of saying it, cos as a woman, I know...YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT!
2007-03-06 21:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by marie m 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well that's exactly the premise of the statement: you can't have it and eat it too. Well, maybe for a short while.
2007-03-06 15:59:50 · answer #7 · answered by soulguy85 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's true you can have your cake and eat it - ask my hubby. LOL
2007-03-07 04:58:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its 5 am !!! i want cake!
2007-03-06 15:58:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what else would you do with cake.
Flying lessons maybe, teach it a foreign language, go out on the pull with it.
2007-03-06 16:01:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋