have it both ways

釋義

1. have / want it both ways

   （想）兩全其美

   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.你不可能做到兩全其美。如果你有錢整天外出玩樂，就能還掉一部分債。

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

同一詞條的短語

• 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