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Have One's Cake And Eat It TooTo wish to have one's cake and eat it too (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. Since having something can mean "eating something" (as in having eggs for breakfast) the phrase can be taken to mean "having (eating) one's cake and afterwards eating it", which is of course impossible. Comedian George Carlin once critiqued this idiom by saying, "When people say, 'Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too.' Fuck off. What good is a goddamn cake you can't eat? What should I eat, someone else's cake instead?" Have Your Cake and Eat It Too is a book by Susan G. Purdy.
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