have your cake and eat it

Definition

› to have or do two things that it is usually impossible to have or do at the same time → See also the icing on the cake → See also be a piece of cake

(Definition of have your cake and eat it from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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have the best of both worlds idiom
have the edge on/over sb/sth idiom
have the last word idiom
have verb
have your (fair) share of sth idiom
have your cake and eat it idiom
have your hands full idiom
have your work cut out idiom
have/take pride of place idiom
haven noun
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