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eat one's cake and have it too

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English

Syllables
eat one's -cake and have it -too
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.

Inflected Forms

eats one's cake and has it too (present, singular) eating one's cake and having it too (participle, present) ate one's cake and had it too (past) eaten one's cake and had it too (participle, past)

Questions

What does eat one's cake and have it too mean?
Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.

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