What does the phrase "have your cake and eat it too" mean?

Question

What does "You want to have your cake, and eat it too" suppose to mean?
Ofcourse If I have my cake, I will eat it, who are you to monitor me like I'm overweight?

Answer 1

The phrase means that you want two things of which the possession of one precludes the possession of the other. For example, if you eat your cake, then you no longer have it, right? Another example is that you want to keep your money and buy a new, expensive car.



If you are overweight, then as a friend, I might suggest having your cake rather than eating it! grin!

Answer 2

To put it simply. If you want to have your cake and eat it.

It means you want the best of both worlds.

For example, married men who have affairs, have their wives at home but still want a piece of action outside of the marriage with other females.

It's only an expression. But someone who wants to have their cake and eat it, is someone who wants to take more than they already have. In life we all have choices to make and choose to live our lives a certain way. There are some people that have their cake, but still want more. Or live their lives by double standards. You can't have your cake and eat it. You have to have, take it and accept it.

People who have it and eat it are crossing the line and are asking for too much. It's only an expression though and it's English which is always complicated. What it really means is, Have Your cake, eat it, but don't ask for any more or you'll be taking advantage of something or someone. You can't have your cake and eat it. You have to choose one. Either/or. Having your cake in this expression means accepting what you have. Eating your cake is taking more than you should. You should only have your cake. Not eat it. Hope that makes sense. I wondered for years why my parents said that in conversations. I was like, but you have it, why can't you just eat it.It is yours. But it has a deeper meaning. Now I know. Hope you do too!

Answer 3

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To wish to have one's cake and eat it too (sometimes eat one's cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English idiomatic proverb, or figure of speech. The phrase's earliest recording is from 1546 as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?", alluding to the impossibility of eating your cake and still having it afterwards; the modern version (where the clauses are reversed) is a corruption which was first signaled in 1812. Comedian George Carlin once critiqued this idiom by saying, "When people say, 'Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too.' What good is a cake you can't eat? What should I eat, someone else's cake instead?". Of course, in the original correct form (eat your cake and have it too), Carlin's critique does not apply. Have Your Cake and Eat It Too is a book by Susan G. Purdy. Bob Dylan changed the phrase in his song "Lay Lady Lay" in the line: "You can have your cake and eat it, too."

Answer 4

LOL. It means you want to have the best of everything or to get something for nothing. The phrase is commonly attributed to the famous story of Marie Antoinette, who, when told the village peasants had no bread to eat, replied, "Let them eat cake." However, most modern historians dispute that this actually happened. In any case, nobody likes a greedy person.

Answer 5

"You want your cake and eat it too" is a figure of speech meaning you want sweet rewards. You want everything without consequences. There is no limit placed upon you.



Sometimes the phase has nothing to do with food. Example if you are negotiating a contract and your terms are too much or unrealistic, the other party would scoff at you saying "so you want your cake and eat it too?"



Speaking of food, the phrase can also be applied to dieting. When you want to lose all the weight without dieting and exercise, then you want the benefits without the hard work.... you want your cake and eat it too.

Answer 6

Cake is just one of a thousand items that could have been used to illustrate the difference between owing something and using something. If you save a million dollars you are rich. If you spend a million dollars you are acting rich. They are not the same thing.

Answer 7

It just means you can't have everything you want. It has to be one or the other. Do you want to eat your cake, or have it forever? That kind of thing

Answer 8

you can consume something and still preserve it. for instance if you eat cake you won't have cake anymore, so to "have your cake and eat it too" means to have it both ways, which is usually not possible.

Answer 9

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