have your cake and eat it

Kahulugan

to get two advantages that are usually impossible to combine

Makuha ang dalawang kalamangang karaniwang hindi puwedeng pagsabayin.

Mga halimbawa

1. 1You can’t have your cake and eat it — if you want a dog, you’ll have less free time.
2. 2He wants a big salary and short hours; basically, he wants to have his cake and eat it.
3. 3The club wants lower fees and better facilities, but it can’t have its cake and eat it.
4. 4Can we really have our cake and eat it, saving money while going on three holidays a year?
5. 5Aisha wants to live by the sea and keep her job in the city — she can’t have her cake and eat it.

Grammar

Kadalasang ginagamit pagkatapos ng can’t o want to. Nagiging my, their, its at iba pa ang your. Sa American English, idinadagdag ang too sa dulo.

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