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"you can't have your cake and eat it too"

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.
by labkat January 12, 2009
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Have your cock 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."

John: "Don't you mean cake?"

Trisha: "Do I look like I eat cake?"
by The Mighty Meme March 20, 2012
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You can't have your pussy and eat it too

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"
by Russessabagina December 15, 2009
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You can’t have it both ways, you can’t have your neccesity and your desire. Needs & wants.
Kevin has a wife but still wants to have relations with his friend Samantha...

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
by lachichu April 16, 2019
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You can't have your cake and eat it too

something that is bittersweet.
getting a good half and a bad half to something.
John: So Tom did u get that English class you wanted?

Tom: Yea man. I love it. However the teacher is a total bitch!

John: Yea, well you can't have your cake and eat it too.
by sergio0691 November 8, 2006
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You can't have your cake and eat it too

An expression basically meaning that you can only have it so good, and you can't have it all.

An good example is if a situation is bittersweet.
Sara was sad that the guy whom had gotten very close to her in the past 3 years which she held a secret fondness for developed an interest in her best friend, Clare. In conversation with Clare, Sara explained the situation, to which Clare responded.

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."
by ThatOneHuman December 28, 2005
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