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have one's cake and eat it, too



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Idioms and Phrases

see eat one's cake .
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Example Sentences

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It's an attempt to have one's cake and eat it too that feels more cowardly than cautious.

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President Xi Jinping and his colleagues are followers of Boris Johnson in at least one respect: they believe that it is possible to have one’s cake and eat it too.

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She also gets to explore the variety of ways one can have one's cake and eat it too.

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This is no time to dance around conflicts, be cute with the legal niceties and try to have one's cake and eat it too.

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California had been great fun, and Di wished she might stop longer, but one couldn't have one's cake and eat it, too.

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