eat one's cake and have it too

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eat one's cake and have it too (third-person singular simple present eats one's cake and has it too, present participle eating one's cake and having it too, simple past ate one's cake and had it too, past participle eaten one's cake and had it too)

1. (idiomatic) Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.

• have one's cake and eat it too