I still don’t think I fully understand, even as the unabomber put it. Can’t eat it and have it? Like, I can’t consume and expect the thing to remain, that it?
Side note: only in English, one can “understand”, but nobody can “overstand” and anybody that “stand” is doing a wholly different thing.
Apparently I never understood this saying until today.
I still don’t think I fully understand, even as the unabomber put it. Can’t eat it and have it? Like, I can’t consume and expect the thing to remain, that it?
Side note: only in English, one can “understand”, but nobody can “overstand” and anybody that “stand” is doing a wholly different thing.
It comes down to “You can’t have the best of two situations. Pick one.”
Ah, that’s much more helpful, thanks!
Yeah, I think that’s it?
Yes it means for you to get one cake. Then eat the cake and yet still have the one cake you got.