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

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Verb [英语]

Audio: en-au-have one's cake and eat it too.ogg Forms: has one's cake and eats it too, having one's cake and eating it too, had one's cake and ate it too, had one's cake and eaten it too
Etymology: 字面意思为“(想同时)拥有蛋糕,和吃掉它”,因为吃了蛋糕就没有了,吃蛋糕和拥有蛋糕两件事无法同时达成。
  1. 又要马儿好,又要马儿不吃草 (同时达到两个互斥的目的) Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-have_one's_cake_and_eat_it_too-en-verb-m5Z8DeOV Categories (other): 有使用例的英語詞, 英語俗語
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: eat one's cake and have it too
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