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⌈ Secret Post #2434 ⌋

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[A7X]

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[Stargate Atlantis]

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[Merlin]

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[Audrey Cooper, Twin Peaks]

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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]

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[Avril Lavigne, Tank Girl]

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[Meet the Robinsons]

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[Blood+]

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[Monty Python's Flying Circus]

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[Valentine Morgenstern, The Mortal Instruments]

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I had a problem with 'have your cake and eat it too' for years, since I always thought that obviously if you have your cake you can eat it, why not. But then someone explained to me that after you eat your cake you don't have it anymore.

Oh thank you! Now it makes sense! It's funny because now that you mentioned it I see that if you flip the terms (you can't eat your cake and have it too), the meaning becomes more obvious. (ESL here, btw)

I still think it would make more sense the other way around, but I suspect that construction is due to the same sort of linguistic fossilization that gives us "little did they know...".

I understand that one, but it makes my brain itch every time I hear it.

Confused ESL here too; I just didn't realize that "have" here was meant in the same sense as "eat". orz

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