[Idiom] HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO. - Balancing Multiple Benefits in Decision Making
Have your cake and eat it too.
To want multiple benefits simultaneously.
'Have your cake and eat it too' pertains to the desire to enjoy two desirable but contradictory options at the same time. The proverb highlights human nature's inherent desire to retain something while also consuming it, pointing out the impracticality or greed in wanting to have the best of both worlds without compromise or sacrifice.
Example Sentences
She wants to have her cake and eat it too by working two jobs.
She wants the best of both worlds by working two jobs.
You can't have it both ways; you can't have your cake and eat it too.
You can't have two benefits at once without compromise.
He realized that trying to have his cake and eat it too meant juggling too many responsibilities.
He found juggling too many tasks was unsustainable.