You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It Too
This makes no sense whatsoever. None. Of course I can have that piece of chocolate cake sitting delectably atop my plate. Now, after many years of confusion I have learned the truth about this common English language proverb: it is wrong. Although I don't know the origins of the phrase itself—I have an hyphothesis that it came about after the invention of cake—somewhere along the line somebody goofed in the retelling. Instead, say it like this, "You can't eat your cake and have it too." Now it makes sense. Cake eaten, cake gone, confusion gone. Here's more on the topic. You're welcome.
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