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The proverb literally means "you cannot simultaneously retain possession of a cake and eat it, too". Once the cake is eaten, it is gone. It can be used to say that one cannot have two incompatible things, or that one should not try to have more than is reasonable. The proverb's meaning is similar to the phrases "you can't have it both ways" and ...
You are what you eat; You can have too much of a good thing; You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink; You can never/never can tell; You cannot always get what you want; You cannot burn a candle at both ends. You cannot have your cake and eat it too; You cannot get blood out of a stone
The article should also be moved to Have your cake and eat it too or You can't have your cake and eat it too, which are correct and actually used (and most common) forms of this proverb. The less common forms with "his/her" etc. are implied, but the current article title is almost never used -- Espoo ( talk ) 11:18, 6 December 2012 (UTC) [ reply ]
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"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche ", [1] said to have been spoken in the 18th century by "a great princess" upon being told that the peasants had no bread. The French phrase mentions brioche, a bread enriched with butter and eggs, considered a luxury food. The quote is taken to ...
Hard cases make bad law; Heuristic; ... This too shall pass; Tobler's first law of geography; ... You can't both have your cake and eat it.