What does the phrase.... "YOU CANT HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO"....MEAN....?????

Question

BUT WHY CANT YOU HAVE TWO THINGS??

I DONT UNDERSTAND IT...

WHY CANT YOU HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO?

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Answer 1

I took it that you have to share what you have.

But it could mean something else, but I never liked that quote, it left too much open.

Answer 2

Meaning you can't have two things.

Like...the phone and computer

the dog and the cat

yada yada yada

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Answer 3

A decision is required...you get one or the other, not both.

Answer 4

To wish to have one's cake and eat it too or simply have one's cake and eat it (sometimes eat one's cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English idiomatic proverb, or figure of speech.

Answer 5

You are supposed to be making  a descicion. You can either have the cake, or eat the cake, You can't have both. Wait, but if you eat the cake, wouldn't you have the cake? IDK

Here's a random quote from an american eagle shirt

FLAT BROKE AND FABULOUS!

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Answer 6

"beyond"  above me is right that what it means but i never understood it cause what good is cake if you cant eat it?

Answer 7

That the person may want one thing and wants to take on another with out the sacrafice of the first what it may be asking of the person. for example the person may want a girlfriend and have the intimate life but doesnt want to commit to that girlfriend in making her his wife.

Answer 8

You can't have everything your way.