"have one's cake and eat it too" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-have one's cake and eat it too.ogg Forms: has one's cake and eats it too [present, singular, third-person], having one's cake and eating it too [participle, present], had one's cake and ate it too [past], had one's cake and eaten it too [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|have<has,,had> one's cake and eat<,,ate,eaten> it too}} have one's cake and eat it too (third-person singular simple present has one's cake and eats it too, present participle having one's cake and eating it too, simple past had one's cake and ate it too, past participle had one's cake and eaten it too)
  1. (idiomatic) To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use). Wikipedia link: Have one's cake and eat it too Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: eat one's cake and have it too Related terms: best of both worlds, butter one's bread on both sides, cakeism, have it both ways, run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, suck and blow Translations (to have two things which are mutually incompatible): de Füfer u's Weggli ha (Alemannic German), 又要馬兒好,又要馬兒不吃草 (Chinese Mandarin), 又要马儿好 (Chinese Mandarin), 魚與熊掌不可兼得 (Chinese Mandarin), man kan ikke både blæse og have mel i munden (Danish), het is het een of het ander (Dutch), syödä ja säästää kakku (kakkua ei voi syödä ja säästää) (Finnish), sekä syödä että säästää kakku (kakkua ei voi sekä syödä että säästää) (Finnish), avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre (French), auf zwei Hochzeiten gleichzeitig tanzen (German), wasch mich, aber mach mich nicht nass (German), दोनों हाथों में लड्डू होना (donõ hāthõ mẽ laḍḍū honā) (Hindi), चित भी मेरी, पट भी मेरी (cit bhī merī, paṭ bhī merī) (Hindi), azt akarja, hogy a kecske is jóllakjon, és a káposzta is megmaradjon (Hungarian), ekki verður bæði sleppt og haldið (Icelandic), bæði sleppa og halda (Icelandic), bæði halda og sleppa (Icelandic), é a bheith i do phota agus i do mhála agat (Irish), avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca (Italian), riedha ħobla u tredda’ (Maltese), هم خدا را خواستن و هم خرما را (ham xodâ râ xâstan va ham xormâ râ) (Persian), هم خرو خواستن هم خرما (ham xar-o xâstan ham xormâ) [colloquial] (Persian), zjeść ciastko i mieć ciastko (Polish), albo rybki, albo akwarium (Polish), albo rybka, albo pipka (Polish), ter sol na eira e chuva no nabal (Portuguese), querer sol na eira e chuva no nabal (Portuguese), și cu buzele unse, și cu slănina în pod (Romanian), și cu burta plină, și cu slănina în pod (Romanian), chan fhaodar a' bhò a reic 's a bainne òl (Scottish Gaelic), имати овце и новце (alt: и) [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), имати јаре и паре (alt: и) [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), imati ovce i novce (i) [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), imati jare i pare (i) [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), estar a la vez en la procesión y repicando las campanas (Spanish), querer el oro y el moro (Spanish), nadar y tener la ropa (Spanish), estar en misa y repicando (Spanish), soplar y sorber, no puede ser (Spanish), tener el oro y el moro (Spanish), tener la torta y jamearla ansimismo (Spanish), cadw torth a'i bwyta hi (Welsh)

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          "code": "gsw",
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          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "de Füfer u's Weggli ha"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "又要馬兒好,又要馬兒不吃草"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "又要马儿好"
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          "note": "又要马儿不吃草 (yòu yào mǎr hǎo, yòu yào mǎr bù chīcǎo, literally “to want to own a good horse while not feeding it grass”)",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "魚與熊掌不可兼得"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "note": "鱼与熊掌不可兼得 (yú yǔ xióngzhǎng bùkě jiān dé, literally “one cannot have both the fish and the bear’s palm”)",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
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        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "man kan ikke både blæse og have mel i munden"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "het is het een of het ander"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "syödä ja säästää kakku (kakkua ei voi syödä ja säästää)"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "sekä syödä että säästää kakku (kakkua ei voi sekä syödä että säästää)"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "auf zwei Hochzeiten gleichzeitig tanzen"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "wasch mich, aber mach mich nicht nass"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "note": "θέλω και την πίτα ολόκληρη και τον σκύλο χορτάτο (thélo kai tin píta olókliri kai ton skýlo chortáto, literally “to want both the whole pie and the dog fed”)",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "donõ hāthõ mẽ laḍḍū honā",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "दोनों हाथों में लड्डू होना"
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "cit bhī merī, paṭ bhī merī",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "चित भी मेरी, पट भी मेरी"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "azt akarja, hogy a kecske is jóllakjon, és a káposzta is megmaradjon"
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "ekki verður bæði sleppt og haldið"
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        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "bæði sleppa og halda"
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        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "bæði halda og sleppa"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "é a bheith i do phota agus i do mhála agat"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca"
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          "code": "mt",
          "lang": "Maltese",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "riedha ħobla u tredda’"
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "ham xodâ râ xâstan va ham xormâ râ",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "هم خدا را خواستن و هم خرما را"
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "ham xar-o xâstan ham xormâ",
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          "word": "هم خرو خواستن هم خرما"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "zjeść ciastko i mieć ciastko"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "albo rybki, albo akwarium"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "albo rybka, albo pipka"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "ter sol na eira e chuva no nabal"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "querer sol na eira e chuva no nabal"
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "și cu buzele unse, și cu slănina în pod"
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "și cu burta plină, și cu slănina în pod"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "и рыбку съесть, и косточкой не подавиться (i rybku sʺjestʹ, i kostočkoj ne podavitʹsja, literally “eat a fish and not choke on its bone”)",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "и рыбку съесть, и на хуй сесть (i rybku sʺjestʹ, i na xuj sestʹ, literally “eat a fish and sit on a cock”)",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
        },
        {
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "chan fhaodar a' bhò a reic 's a bainne òl"
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          "alt": "и",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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          "word": "имати овце и новце"
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          "alt": "и",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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          "word": "имати јаре и паре"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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          "word": "imati ovce i novce (i)"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
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          "word": "imati jare i pare (i)"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "estar a la vez en la procesión y repicando las campanas"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "querer el oro y el moro"
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        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "nadar y tener la ropa"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "estar en misa y repicando"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "soplar y sorber, no puede ser"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "tener el oro y el moro"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "tener la torta y jamearla ansimismo"
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          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
          "word": "cadw torth a'i bwyta hi"
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        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Welsh translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It's not possible to get your savings and keep the piggy bank intact. You can't have your cake and eat it too!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ],
        [
          "mutually",
          "mutually"
        ],
        [
          "incompatible",
          "incompatible"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Have one's cake and eat it too"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/En-au-have_one%27s_cake_and_eat_it_too.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "eat one's cake and have it too"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "gsw",
      "lang": "Alemannic German",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "de Füfer u's Weggli ha"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "又要馬兒好,又要馬兒不吃草"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "又要马儿好"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "note": "又要马儿不吃草 (yòu yào mǎr hǎo, yòu yào mǎr bù chīcǎo, literally “to want to own a good horse while not feeding it grass”)",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "魚與熊掌不可兼得"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "note": "鱼与熊掌不可兼得 (yú yǔ xióngzhǎng bùkě jiān dé, literally “one cannot have both the fish and the bear’s palm”)",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "man kan ikke både blæse og have mel i munden"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "het is het een of het ander"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "syödä ja säästää kakku (kakkua ei voi syödä ja säästää)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "sekä syödä että säästää kakku (kakkua ei voi sekä syödä että säästää)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "auf zwei Hochzeiten gleichzeitig tanzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "wasch mich, aber mach mich nicht nass"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "note": "θέλω και την πίτα ολόκληρη και τον σκύλο χορτάτο (thélo kai tin píta olókliri kai ton skýlo chortáto, literally “to want both the whole pie and the dog fed”)",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "donõ hāthõ mẽ laḍḍū honā",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "दोनों हाथों में लड्डू होना"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "cit bhī merī, paṭ bhī merī",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "चित भी मेरी, पट भी मेरी"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "azt akarja, hogy a kecske is jóllakjon, és a káposzta is megmaradjon"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "ekki verður bæði sleppt og haldið"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "bæði sleppa og halda"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "bæði halda og sleppa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "é a bheith i do phota agus i do mhála agat"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "riedha ħobla u tredda’"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ham xodâ râ xâstan va ham xormâ râ",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "هم خدا را خواستن و هم خرما را"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ham xar-o xâstan ham xormâ",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "هم خرو خواستن هم خرما"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "zjeść ciastko i mieć ciastko"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "albo rybki, albo akwarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "albo rybka, albo pipka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "ter sol na eira e chuva no nabal"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "querer sol na eira e chuva no nabal"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "și cu buzele unse, și cu slănina în pod"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "și cu burta plină, și cu slănina în pod"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "и рыбку съесть, и косточкой не подавиться (i rybku sʺjestʹ, i kostočkoj ne podavitʹsja, literally “eat a fish and not choke on its bone”)",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "и рыбку съесть, и на хуй сесть (i rybku sʺjestʹ, i na xuj sestʹ, literally “eat a fish and sit on a cock”)",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "chan fhaodar a' bhò a reic 's a bainne òl"
    },
    {
      "alt": "и",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "имати овце и новце"
    },
    {
      "alt": "и",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "имати јаре и паре"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "imati ovce i novce (i)"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "imati jare i pare (i)"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "estar a la vez en la procesión y repicando las campanas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "querer el oro y el moro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "nadar y tener la ropa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "estar en misa y repicando"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "soplar y sorber, no puede ser"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "tener el oro y el moro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "tener la torta y jamearla ansimismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to have two things which are mutually incompatible",
      "word": "cadw torth a'i bwyta hi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "have one's cake and eat it too"
}

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