have your cake and eat it

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to have the advantages of sth without its disadvantages; to have both things that are available

   Life is tough and you can't have your cake and eat it.

   You can't have your cake and eat it too, all the time.

In the movies · 2

• Life is tough and you can't have your cake and eat it.Be Here Now2015
• You can't have your cake and eat it too, all the time.American Movie1999
• Can't have your cake and eat it too.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse2023
• Well, isn't that like having your cake and eating it?All of Us Strangers2023

Learn it in full scenes

• Be Here Now2015
  • Andy Shows His Kids the Sword
  • Andy Wins the Role of Spartacus
  • Andy Whitfield's Cancer Returns
• American Movie1999
  • Mark's Twelfth Hour Deadline
  • Mark Pitches Northwestern
  • Family Fights Over the Phone Bill
• All of Us Strangers2023
  • Harry Knocks on Adam's Door
  • Adam Visits His Parents' Old House
  • Harry Comes Round to Drink

From the same entry

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• take the cake
• go like hot cakes
• the icing on the cake
• a piece of cake

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