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have one's cake and eat it too

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(idiomatic) To seek to have two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use).

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to seek to have two things which are mutually incompatible
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I was suggesting that you could not have your cake and eat it by asking her for national direction one day and then criticising her for giving too much of it on another.
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