You Can't Have Cake And Eat It Too

Meaning you can have it or you can eat it but once its gone theres no cake left to eat.

You can't have cake and eat it too. You cant have your cake and eat it too is a proverb which describes the situation when a person is unable to do two things that are contradictory to each other you are unable to have one thing if you already have the other. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. If you say you can have your cake and eat it too that means that you can in fact have it both ways which.

So let this be a lesson in grammar from the Unabomber himself. The point is that if you eat your cake right now you wont have it to eat later. This phrase is easier to understand if it is read as You cant eat your cake and have it too.

Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary. It should be agreed upon before the date who will pay how much. Well the old proverb goes You cant have your cake and eat it too So now youve got to deal with whether or not youre allowed to eat that cake.

To do or have two desired things at the same time. You cant have your cake and eat it too proverb You cannot have or do two things that are both desirable but normally contradictory or impossible to have or do simultaneously. You cant have your cake and eat it too.

Have cake and eat it too phrase. Too many people want to have their cake and eat it demanding all sorts. In contemporary English we say You cant have your cake and eat it too.