| Eat Their Cake. Excellent posting Karl.
And Nelson was the icing on the cake.
However, I have one correction.
The correct term is 'Eat their cake and have it too'.
Anyone can have their cake and then eat it too but to eat it and then have it is the trick.
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kudos:4 | said by workablob:Excellent posting Karl.
And Nelson was the icing on the cake.
However, I have one correction.
The correct term is 'Eat their cake and have it too'.
Anyone can have their cake and then eat it too but to eat it and then have it is the trick.
Dave
No, you cannot have two things that are mutually incompatible. You cannot "have" (possess) your cake and eat it later as then you will not have it (possess it) for future use.
Karl used the correct form of the saying/proverb.
»en.wiktionary.org/wiki/have_one%···t_it_too
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| said by Mele20:said by workablob:Excellent posting Karl.
And Nelson was the icing on the cake.
However, I have one correction.
The correct term is 'Eat their cake and have it too'.
Anyone can have their cake and then eat it too but to eat it and then have it is the trick.
Dave
No, you cannot have two things that are mutually incompatible. You cannot "have" (possess) your cake and eat it later as then you will not have it (possess it) for future use. Karl used the correct form of the saying/proverb. » en.wiktionary.org/wiki/have_one%···t_it_too Excellent point.
And, my previous example on this idiom is not even the original.
"wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" (John Heywood's "A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue").
So, I stand corrected.
My apologies Karl and all.
Dave |
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