The secret of the universe. All will be understood when the phrase is mentioned.
Sitting around discussing all of life’s problems, someone exclaims “don’t cry in the beer, but you can put the chicken in the water”. Suddenly everyone understands everything. A true ah-ha moment.
Is the phrase used mainly in south florida to describe the sexual appeal of a person, "you can get it" is meant in the sense that the person (who can get it) is sexually appealing enough to the person making the statement, that at any point in time, the person can get "it" meaning sex.
"Hey wussup Maria?"
"Hey Dre, whats up?"
"I just thought I'd let you know.....YOU CAN GET IT!!!!!"
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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.
1.make someone an offer and give them the choice of accepting and living, or refusing and dying. Taken from "The Godfather" trilogy.
2. Same as above, but instead of killing them, you take(kill) something or someone very dear to them.
The band-leader refused to let Johnny Fontane out of his contract, so Don Corleone made him an offer he couldn't refuse.