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have one's cake and eat it

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English

Syllables
have one's -cake and eat it
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

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

Inflected Forms

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

Questions

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

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