have one's cake and eat it too

Verb

 * 1)  To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use).

Usage notes

 * This expression is usually found in some form of the proverb: One cannot have one's cake and eat it too.

Translations

 * Alemannic German: de Füfer u's Weggli ha
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 又要馬兒好，又要馬兒不吃草,
 * Danish: man kan ikke både blæse og have mel i munden
 * Dutch: het is het een of het ander
 * Finnish: syödä ja säästää kakku, sekä syödä että säästää kakku
 * French:
 * German: auf zwei Hochzeiten gleichzeitig tanzen; wasch mich, aber mach mich nicht nass
 * Greek: θέλω και την πίτα ολόκληρη και τον σκύλο χορτάτο
 * Hindi: दोनों हाथों में लड्डू होना, चित भी मेरी, पट भी मेरी
 * Hungarian: azt akarja, hogy a kecske is jóllakjon, és a káposzta is megmaradjon
 * Icelandic: ekki verður bæði sleppt og haldið, bæði sleppa og halda, bæði halda og sleppa
 * Irish: é a bheith i do phota agus i do mhála agat
 * Italian: avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca
 * Maltese: riedha ħobla u tredda'
 * Persian: هم خدا را خواستن و هم خرما را, هم خرو خواستن هم خرما
 * Polish: zjeść ciastko i mieć ciastko, ,
 * Portuguese: ter sol na eira e chuva no nabal, querer sol na eira e chuva no nabal
 * Romanian: și cu buzele unse, și cu slănina în pod, și cu burta plină, și cu slănina în pod
 * Russian: и рыбку съесть, и косточкой не подавиться
 * Scottish Gaelic: chan fhaodar a' bhò a reic 's a bainne òl
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: имати и овце и новце, имати и јаре и паре
 * Roman: imati i ovce i novce, imati i jare i pare
 * Spanish: estar a la vez en la procesión y repicando las campanas,, nadar y tener la ropa, estar en misa y repicando,
 * Welsh: cadw torth a'i bwyta hi