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You can't have your cake and eat it too

  1. The things people want are often incompatible. This proverb is easier to grasp if it is understood to mean “You can't eat your cake and have it too.”


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The first similarity to strike Fitzgerald was: “You can’t eat your cake and have it too” — an uncommon version of the maxim “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”

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“You can’t have your cake and eat it too,” Knezovich said.

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“My view is you can’t have your cake and eat it too,” he told Mr. Trump’s lawyers during a preliminary hearing in a Brooklyn federal court.

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Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge You can’t have your cake and eat it too — not yet.

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“I have to say you can’t have your cake and eat it, too.”

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