If you really think about it, Yes, you can have your cake and eat it too, I know I do! : ) So what's the point of that saying?
2007-10-05 16:13:56 · 24 answers · asked by ME 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
You know how you have a wedding cake for instance.....and it's just ....completely gorgeous...and it looks soo good...you wanna dig in but you wanna preserve it forever because it's sooo perfect looking........
you cant have your cake to keep forever and eat it too....and enjoy the taste....so you can enjoy something or try to preserve it just as it is..untouched....
2007-10-05 16:32:13 · answer #1 · answered by Princess Consuela B. Hammock 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it goes back to the old days of England when the queen told the masses to let them eat cake cause they were complaining too much about the taxes...
Meaning like that's going to help???
You can't have your cake and eat it too means you can't have everything you ever wanted...
Kinda like when you go looking for a job or a house to buy or a car to buy or clothes to buy...
There will be something wrong with everything no matter how much you like it or how much is right with the item...
You may find a wonderful house, but is near a busy hiway, or you find clothes that are pretty but they don't fit you, or the perfect car, but you can't afford it, or the job pays well but you hate the hours...
Things like that...
2007-10-05 16:24:48 · answer #2 · answered by aspenkdp2003 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Plagiarizing from another answer:
"A dramatist named John Heywood was the first to use it, at least in the written form. The expression appears in his "A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue," a page-turner from the year 1546. (Please note the fancy Middle English spelling.) Originally, the saying went, "Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?"
Before you answer that question by chowing down, let us explain what Mr. Heywood meant. Basically, he was saying sometimes you have to make a decision and live with the consequences. To "eat your cake and have it too" (the original expression) means you want it both ways.
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2007-10-05 16:22:31 · answer #3 · answered by shespeaks! 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yet another excuse it became this type of great deal became that the factors for the previous few years were undesirable (very chilly, very moist, alternating with drought) and vegetation were undesirable so there became no longer plenty wheat available to make bread. right here is from a contemporaneous diary of an Englishman: climate for July 1789: subsequently some distance a bad season for Hay-making as has been popular recently and an unusual volume of spoilt or broken- France has petitioned us for 20-000 Sacks of Flour; a privy Council became held and tis desperate that on acct. of the intense fee of Wheat right here (30s pr. Comb) and the probability of the arriving Crop from the long incorporate?d Rains It can not be spared. Holland has made a similar request even though it can not be complied with Wheat being with us as intense as a million?.11s. 6d His next get entry to: The Queen of France and her occasion are triumph over. climate had a significant result on politics for the duration of the a while.
2016-10-10 09:39:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It' sort of like having to give something up to get something else that you want...
I can only put it into terms associated with my work... I work in retail... I hate working weekends. I have been fortunate enough not to have to do so until... I wanted to transfer to a brand new store... not even open yet. It's closer to my home by 20 minutes. I got the transfer, BUT now I have to work weekends and I have to be at work by 300am.. That's "I can't have my cake and eat it too".
If I were able to transfer AND not work weekends and be at work by 500am... that would be." I have the best of both worlds". Another saying.
Bottomline.. you have to weigh your options and calculate all angles with every opportunity that arises for you.
2007-10-05 17:02:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's basically like, "you can have one or the other". Like, here are your choices; you can either have your cake, look at it, and admire it- or you can eat your cake, but you have to eat it blindfolded so you'll get it all over your face and clothes.
Sorry, I couldn't think of a better example.
2007-10-05 16:19:09 · answer #6 · answered by Olivia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Basically it means you can't have your cake (partner) and eat it too: (lover)
My husband had a saying that I had never heard of:
"you can't have your cake and ice cream too"
2007-10-05 16:19:47 · answer #7 · answered by ~Sheila~ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means you've got some really greedy friends trying to hog your cake.
2007-10-05 16:15:46 · answer #8 · answered by Gonealot R 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good point.....I like cake
2007-10-05 16:16:05 · answer #9 · answered by surfmerrick24 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In a sense it means you can not get more than what you deserve. It is also used when someone wants things that conflict.
2007-10-05 16:28:37 · answer #10 · answered by Floyd P 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋