have it both ways

释义

1. have / want it both ways

   （想）两全其美

   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.你不可能做到两全其美。如果你有钱整天外出玩乐，就能还掉一部分债。

电影里这样说 · 1 部

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

同一词条的短语

• 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