"You can't have your cake and eat it too" - do you know how the REAL saying goes?
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'You can't eat your cake and have it too'
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yes but you will then have it as a part of you, not something you have
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**"One can't use something up and still have it to enjoy."** "You can't have your cake and eat it too -- One can't use something up and still have it to enjoy. This proverb was recorded in the book of proverbs by John Heywood in 1546, and is first attested in the United States in the 1742 'Colonial Records of Georgia' in 'Original Papers, 1735-1752.' The adage is found in varying forms: You can't eat your cake and have it too. You can't have everything and eat it too; Eat your cake and have the crumbs in bed with you, etc. ..." SOURCE: From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman:
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it goes twice... backwards unless... Chelsea broke the mirror
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The original saying is "you can't eat your cake and have it too". Meaning You can't eat you cake and still have it. It means sacrificing something For something else. You can have your cake and eat it. Got cake? Eat it. But to eat it and still have something left is impossible. The saying is From the 1500's. The latter is a corruption of the phrase in the 1800's.
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