When someone wants all of the benefits of a relationship without the commitment. Typically used when seeking sexual favors
Billy has been trying to get with Sally for the past few months, but she won’t sleep with him unless they’re in a relationship. She told him, “ you can’t have your cake and eat it too”
The far-less-euphamistic version of "have your cake and eat it too;" An idiomatic figure of speech used to connote the idea of consuming a highly desired thing whilst managing to preserve it. This may also indicate having or wanting more than one can handle or deserve, or trying to have two incompatible things.
John: "I work at a law firm so I can make lots of money and get hot women, but then I work at a law firm, so I have no time to actually go out and find hot women."
Trisha: "You can't have your cock and eat it too."
When you have exactly what you want in terms of a relationship with one person. Yet you find yourself wanting that little extra something from another.
Tiger Woods response to the media after they found out about all of his affairs, "To the public I'm sorry, but you know I, just like most men, I want to have my cake and eat it too."