Have one's cake and eat it

Definition

cake /keÇk/ n ၁။ [C, U] ကိတ္မုန္႔။ a sponge cake ❍ a chocolate cake ❍ a fruit cake ❍ a piece/slice of (birthday)cake ❍ an assortment of fancy cakes ❍ a cake tin/mix/recipe ❍ Have some more cake! ၂။ [C] ငါး၊ အာလူး စသည္တို႔ျဖင့္ေရာ ဖုတ္ထားေသာ ဝိုင္းဝိုင္းျပားျပား စားစရာ။ fish cakes ❍ potato cakes. ၃။ [C] အခဲ။ အတံုး။ a cake of soap. v ၁။ ~ sth (in/with sth) (usu passive) မာေတာင့္သြားသည္။ Her shoes were caked with mud. ၂။ ခဲသည္။ Blood from the wound had caked on his face. ❏ get, want, etc a slice/share of the cake [ IDM ] အျမတ္၊ အက်ဳိးကို ေဝပံုက်ရသည္၊ ရလိုသည္။ The company's profits have risen, and the workers are demanding a larger slice of the cake. ❏ have one's cake and eat it [ IDM ] ( infml ) (usu in negative sentences) (တစ္ခုခုကို စားလည္း စားခ်င္၊ ထားလည္း ထားခ်င္ ဆိုသကဲ့သို႔) မျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည္ကို ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းသည္။ He wants a regular income but doesn't want to work. He can't have his cake and eat it!

Examples

1. A chocolate cake
2. A birthday/wedding/Christmas cake
3. [a piece/slice of cake] : Would you like a slice of cake?
4. [make/bake a cake] : She was making a cake for Peter’s birthday.
5. Rice/potato cakes
6. [a slice of the cake] : They’re worried that their slice of the cake is going to get smaller.
7. [divide/cut the cake] : They had to agree on ways of dividing the cake.