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Definition

have it both ways

to get advantages from two opposing things
You can't have it both ways - you either work longer and get paid more or have more leisure time and get paid less.

(Definition of have it both ways from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

The first and last word in dictionaries