"eat one's cake and have it too" meaning in English

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Verb

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

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