Let them eat cake

It's to show either that you don't care if people are in the shit, or how they get out of it.

It can also be used to show that you don’t understand much about people’s shitty situation.

Both meanings can be used together, to mean that you don’t understand much about their shitty situation, you don’t care to understand it, and you don’t care how they get out of it either.

Where this came from:

A French writer called Rousseau wrote that a great princess once said, more or less, that if you have no bread, there's always cake instead.

When she says "cake", don't think birthday cake. Think pastries and cakes that come in squares that you can slice, which a basically just sweet bread.

Think of a posh French princess in a carriage that's going through peasant land in order to get to the castle. They have to stop for a minute, so the peasants start to approach, carrying bread baskets. The princess asks what they want. She's told they need bread, because they don't have any. And this is where she says the line. But you can interpret it in several ways:

1. She's never seen poor people before, and she's ditzy:

"Well, what I would do is just have cake instead, so why don't they just do that?"

2. She's never seen poor people before, and she doesn't care (whilst applying makeup):

"Oh well. Can't they just have cake instead?"

3. She knows they are poor, and she's being a complete bitch, almost making a joke (staring out the window):

"Oh well, there's always cake."

The insurance companies will suffer? Good. Let them eat cake.

Profits are down? Well, err... Let them eat cake?

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I'll eat my hat

A saying used to express how absolutely, positively certain a person is about something.

If she isn't having an affair, I'll eat my hat!

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Eat Shit and Die

Military: Friendly Fire Fratricide.

"I want to Eat Shit and Die" after I killed my buddy in that fire-fight..." The deepest of all possible depressions. Mandatory suicide watch for 72 Hours. PTSD follow-up triage indicated.

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Eat your lunch

Many don't believe me, but in March of 1967 a buddy and I were sitting in a local bar. Something was said about lunch, I responded by saying, "I'll eat your lunch". All laughed and went on. The group that was there started using that line. Next thing I know everyone is using it. Believe it or not.

One might say, want to run your car against mine, I'll eat your lunch.

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Sad eating

Someone who is secretly insecure about themselves and eats when they are sad. Sad eating is a subtle disorder that people commonly say isnt. Sad eating is pretty much for stupid people

Wow shes getting fat
yeah i bet shes sad eating

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Ligue 1 Uber Eats

The French top division of football (what's a soccer?) where every season, its been farmed by PSG (Paris Saint-Germain) of the likes of Neymar (diver) (no longer Pessi) and Mpaypal, whom bottles in European football outside of France.

Twitter user Troll Football:"What is the biggest farmer league in football?" Real Madrid fan:"Its the Ligue 1 Uber Eats leauge, mpaypal loves farming it along with Messi and Neymar!"

rabbits eating your head

A default state of mind, somewhat like a chosen hallucination, when things get so bad that rabbits eating your head is a beautiful alternative to one’s current reality.

After my third staff meeting of the afternoon, I started to lull myself into the “rabbits eating your head” scenario, just for a little relief.