have it both ways

Meaning

1. have / want it both ways

   to have or want to have the advantages of two different situations or ways of behaving that are impossible to combine

   You can't have it both ways. If you can afford to go out all the time, you can afford to pay off some of your debts.

In the movies · 1

• So I says, Listen, Warren, you can't have it both ways.Adam's Rib1949

From the same entry

• across the way
• all the way
• always the way
• any way you slice it
• be born made that way
• be set in your ways
• by the way
• by way of
• by way of the way of
• come your way
• cut both ways
• either way