You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat it Too

tkquick198@comcast.net — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:00:00 +0100

This English proverb has often confused people. If you eat your cake, aren't you "having" it? The intended meaning makes more sense to our modern ears if

we switch some of the wording around to, "You can't eat your cake and have it too!" Obviously once you've eaten your cake, you won't have it anymore. This proverb is meant to express the impossibility of having something both ways; if those ways conflict.

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You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat it Too