have one's cake and eat it, too
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She also gets to explore the variety of ways one can have one's cake and eat it too.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2015
California had been great fun, and Di wished she might stop longer, but one couldn't have one's cake and eat it, too.
From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
But to have both publicity and secrecy is to have one's cake and eat it too.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
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