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What does have your cake and eat it too mean?

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"You can't have your cake and eat it too." refers to two desirable options which are mutually exclusive of one another.

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You can't have your cake and eat it is a popular English idiomatic proverb or figure of speech. The proverb literally means "you cannot simultaneously retain your cake and eat it". Once the cake is eaten, it is gone.

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