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Значение идиомы have one’s cake and eat it too
[have one’s cake and eat it too] {v. phr.} To enjoy two oppositeadvantages.
You can either spend your money going to Europe or saveit for a down payment on a house, but you can’t do both. That would behaving your cake and eating it, too.
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