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you can't have your cake and eat it too 

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.

Have your cake and eat it too 

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

cream off your cake 

When someone takes credit for your work
you share an idea with a colleague and then hear him repeat it in a meeting, it is well received and he accepts all the praise.
Later on that night you talk about it at home with your wife and she agrees he took the cream off your cake

Checking to see if your cake 

(possible tw)

Checking to make sure you're not cake is when one cuts the skin to make sure they are not cake
"Are you checking to see if your cake?"
"Yeah, I'm cake"
"Oh no"

"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.

get your cake up 

Get your cake up means to start off with a small amount of money and hustle or flip your money into a larger amount.
Joe spent all his money at the strip club on Friday so Saturday I told him "get your cake up" and then well go again.
get your cake up by D Radick January 8, 2006