Globe Theater - You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

What does “have your cake and eat it too” mean? Having your cake
refers to keeping it with you. This means you want to preserve the
cake for the future. But you also want to eat it. This is
contradictory. The moment you eat your cake, you can’t have it
because it is finished. Conversely, if you decide to have or keep
your cake then you can’t eat it. This proverb highlights a very
valuable lesson which is that you cannot have it both ways. When
you are presented with two choices that are mutually exclusive, you
have to choose one. You cannot choose both. Either you have to eat
the cake or have it. If we examine the wording, we find that ‘eat
your cake and have it’ sounds more logical.