eat one's cake and have it too
преследовать две взаимно исключающие цели, пытаться совместить несовместимое
"If you try to eat your cake and have it too, you will never gain anything in life."
Другие идиомы:
- so clean you can eat off the floor
- eat dirt
- eat like a bird
- eat one's heart out
- as nutty as a fruitcake
- eat out
- eat and run
- have one's cake and eat it too
- make (someone) eat crow
- eat away at (something)
- eat (someone) out of house and home
- eat (something) up
- as flat as a pancake
- slice of the cake/pie
- eat away at (someone)