This phrase is easier to understand if it is read as "You can't eat your cake, and have it too". Obviously once you've eaten your cake, you won't have it any more. Used for expressing the impossibility of having something both ways, if those two ways conflict.
He works so hard to pay for that fancy house of his that he never has any time to stay home and enjoy it.
Yeah, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
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The phrase is used either when one person doesn't want to do what another person tells them to do or someone sets something/someone on fire. Now it is usually adapted to make more sense in a conversation or when giving a girl a Charizard.
Ash: Charizard, use Fire Blast!
Charizard: (burns Ash) YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BADGES TO TRAIN ME!
Rapist: It's raping time!
Rapee: (Kicks rapist in the balls) YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BADGES TO RAPE ME!
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When a girl fancies a guy, they will ask them "Have you seen James?"
James means good looking guy, it's the female version of "How you doing?"
Girl : "Have you seen James?"
Boy: "No"
Girl: "Cool"
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You can't keep your old love while trying out a new one.
"you can't have your cake and eat it too" trying to hold onto something - an uncut cake - while enjoying eating it.
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A dirtier, less known expression that mean's the same as "you can't have your cake and eat it, too."
In other words, you can't have everything you want. You get one thing, but you may not get the other.
Joe: Did you hear that Mike slept with Kelly?
Sam: Yea.
Joe: But she won't be his girlfriend.
Sam: "You can't have your pussy and eat it too"
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What you say to your friend when you are secretly in love with them.
Eddie: βYou can have my back any dayβ
Buck: βor, you know, you can have mineβ
The first thing you should ever say to a friend/anyone after you/anyone cause physical pain towards that person in any area of their body.
*Kid falls off bike*
Kid : "Ouch! My shin!
You: "Maybe you should have been wearing a helmet!!"
*Friend gets kicked in the balls*
Friend: "I think you popped a nut!!"
You: "Maybe you should have been wearing a helmet!!"
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