I learned what the expression "You can't have your cake and eat it too" means today.
Since the first time I heard this expression I was confused. I was all like, if you have a cake, then its yours, so why shouldn't you be able to eat it?
Apparently, they mean that when you eat it you can't have it anymore after that.
Honestly, how hard would it have been to say "You can't eat your cake and still have it."
-According to wikipedia this is the original version, "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?"
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I like this view. Here is one I always thought of: The person who usually ends up making the cake is probably the one throwing the party so they are pretty busy with everything else and really made the cake for someone else. By the time the party is over and they have time to eat said cake it is gone because, well, it was a cake.
ReplyDeletei don't like cake anyway, so everyone can have mine.
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