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.
Yeah, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
by bmiles October 1, 2006
Get the you can't have your cake and eat it too mug."you can't have your cake and eat it too" trying to hold onto something - an uncut cake - while enjoying eating it.
by labkat January 12, 2009
Get the "you can't have your cake and eat it too" mug.a very cute lyric in 50 Cent's song "21 Questions". Popular in the Chicago area to say to someone you adore.
"And we only humans girl we make mistakes, to make it up I do whatever it take
I love you like a fat kid love cake
You know my style I say anything to make you smile"
"And we only humans girl we make mistakes, to make it up I do whatever it take
I love you like a fat kid love cake
You know my style I say anything to make you smile"
by Marissa The Great April 20, 2006
Get the I love you like a fat loves cake mug.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.
Just like wanting to be with two people.
Just like wanting to be with two people.
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."
by The Cake. July 20, 2011
Get the I want to have my cake and eat it too. mug.When someone's butt is suddenly visible with the type of pants they are wearing, unlike any other day. Cake is referring to one's butt.
Friend 1 (Girl)- Do these pants look good on me?
Friend 2 (Girl)- Dang girl you lookin like a snack!! (Lookin hot
Friend 3 (Girl)- YeeeezzzzZzuh!! Is it my birthday?!??! 'Cuz I see cake!!
If someone says this to you it means that your butt or booty looks good in what ever pants you're wearing. They're complimenting you unless said differently lol.
Friend 2 (Girl)- Dang girl you lookin like a snack!! (Lookin hot
Friend 3 (Girl)- YeeeezzzzZzuh!! Is it my birthday?!??! 'Cuz I see cake!!
If someone says this to you it means that your butt or booty looks good in what ever pants you're wearing. They're complimenting you unless said differently lol.
by bae with boobs bruh1738 April 23, 2018
Get the Is it my birthday?!??! 'Cuz I see cake!! mug.Kevin has a wife but still wants to have relations with his friend Samantha...
You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
by lachichu April 16, 2019
Get the You can’t have your cake and eat it too mug.A Basic Summary of all Modern Rap Music On The Radio. It originated from bored white people who listened to punk rock who wished to express their distaste for the retarded music on the radio. The Tern “SUCK MAH CHEESE CAKES BELLYFLOP WHOOP WHOOP” is basicly a mockery of the popular music today.
by Bear Hunter May 13, 2009
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