you can't have your cake and eat it （too）

you can't have your cake and eat it （too） proverb you can't enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives 〈谚〉两者不可兼得。

• largish
• prolixnesses
• cone sheets
• metrizable space
• desmolysis
• have / be finished with sth
• back-ganging
• favoured
• ribozymes
• sunnier
• put a stitch (或 stitches) in
• anhinga
• explosive ordnance disposal
• diethylamine
• tyre kickers
• panel code
• actinouranium
• leonine
• intensive forestry
• showbizs
• champagne socialists
• dyestuffs
• binomial names
• shelf list
• Indianan
• marionettish
• sulfinpyrazones
• duty
• sap.
• reconnaissance drone
• hobbying
• pulaskite
• Hindenburg line
• Hookean solid
• deceive oneself
• tefillins
• plumbings
• wine and dine (sb)
• sociometrists
• by-and-by
• not exactly
• single-phaser
• a glancing reference / mention
• haslets
• damned
• mount the white feather
• butterbox
• diketones
• self-attachment
• get going
• hereupon
• bibliothecaries
• clad-
• Tridentine
• photoreduce
• within one's grasp
• Salvationer
• clamworm
• productivities
• anisomeric
• hypophysectomize
• resends
• below decks
• the Territorial Army
• field sparrows
• model
• constating
• game-winner
• merry as the day is long
• toilet seat
• balsam of Gilead
• on friendly terms
• rucking
• misthinking
• rightly or wrongly
• track in range
• council house
• deglaciating
• suntanning
• eat something up
• stick needles in someone
• basophilia
• squinnied
• upper branch
• mixed analysis of variance
• misventurous
• J.St.
• put / stick / get your oar in
• rockumentaries
• close in on/upon
• EMRS
• Murrow, Edward Roscoe
• not worth a whoop
• champer
• celestial equators
• savas
• cystinuria
• blown glasses
• attainers
• non obs.