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

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Verb [English]

Forms: has one's cake and eats it [present, singular, third-person], having one's cake and eating it [participle, present], had one's cake and ate it [past], had one's cake and eaten it [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|have<has,,had> one's cake and eat<,,ate,eaten> it}} have one's cake and eat it (third-person singular simple present has one's cake and eats it, present participle having one's cake and eating it, simple past had one's cake and ate it, past participle had one's cake and eaten it)
  1. Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: have one's cake and eat it too
    Sense id: en-have_one's_cake_and_eat_it-en-verb-LUEGv-DM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it"

Inflected forms

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