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What Does “ You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” Mean?

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It means you can't pick both options you have to pick one or the other. For example: Bob has a promotion however, if he accepts, he will have to work on the weekends. In this example he can't accept the promotion and not work on weekends.

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It can mean that you can't have two things that are incompatible, or that you shouldn't try to have more than is fair.

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