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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too (2018x95)

Ausstrahlung: Apr 13, 2018

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to suppo→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Nazis, The British Accent, and BBC News https://youtu.be/_hRQq5e7Wi0?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt Why Do We Call Scammers "Con Men"? https://youtu.be/J1tl0P4gbb8?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3-uys3Rl2dvdsFkk96zRbt In this video: The idiom “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” deliciously illustrates the concept of making trade-offs and realizing that you can’t have something if you have another. The phrase is often used when referring to compromises and alludes to making a choice between two options that could never be reconciled. In other words, the two options that are mutually exclusive. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/cake-eat/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can't_have_your_cake_and_eat_it http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/magazine/20FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=0 http://blog.writeathome.com/index.php/2012/07/if-i-have-my-cake-why-cant-i-eat-it/ http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002762.html http://india.british-history.ac.uk/image-pageScan.aspx?pubid=854&sp=3&pg=189 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75760 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_language http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hav2.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heywood https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=eat+your+cake+and+have%2C+have+your+cake+and+eat&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ceat%20your%20cake%20and%20have%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chave%20your%20cake%20and%20eat%3B%2Cc0 http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/02/magazine/on-language-two-b-s-in-a-bomber.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski http://editions-hache.com/essai