Saturday
Proverb:
Proverb: "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
Meaning:
The proverb literally means "you cannot simultaneously
retain your cake and eat it". Once the cake is eaten, it is gone.
You may also hear people say that you can have your cake and
eat it too.
History / Interesting Fact:
The
phrase is recorded in a letter from 14th March 1538 when Thomas Duke
of Norfolk wrote
to Thomas Cromwell as
"a man can not have his cake and eat his cake".
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