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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

To have something both ways, to have something in possession and be able to exploit or use it

Etymology:

  • This phrase originated in the 16th century. If you have a cake and you have eaten your piece, then you are left with a choice either to eat it more or save or keep it. In the same way, the spent money is the one, which is no longer in your possession, all you care would be the rest of money you have. The expression actually began as “you can’t eat your cake and have it too”.
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I want to earn for my family and myself that will let me have my cake and eat it too.

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Submitted on February 25, 2019

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toma tu pastel y cómelo también

készítsd el a tortád és engedd is

ambil kuenya dan makan juga

あなたのケーキを持って、それも食べてください

האָבן דיין שטיקל און עסן עס אויך

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