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#have your cake and eat it
urfaveboi · 9 months
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What was the best cake you’ve ever had?
oreo three milk cake hahaha
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josiebelladonna · 2 years
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February 2019: sugar. June 2019: paint.  September 2019: neon.  July 2020: bones.  November 2020: snow. February 2021: fire.  August 2021: blood.  October 2021: sunlight. November 2021: wood/turpentine. August 2022: gemstones.
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stroopwafelsendrop · 7 years
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C: you can eat your cake and have it.. or whatever
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humanhate · 7 years
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People who don’t understand the phrase “have your cake and eat it” and need it constantly explained to them. 
For the last time: If you HAVE a cake in your hands, or in your fridge, it cannot be simultaneously in your tummy, where it will be if you EAT it. You cannot have your cake and eat it.
Got it? 
Now never advertise your inability to understand fairly simple English sentences again.
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benyinka · 8 years
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Popular Expressions We Should Get Right
Popular Expressions We Should Get Right
There are some popular sayings, proverbs and idioms that speakers (predominantly non-native) of English language have used incorrectly over the years. I had firsthand experience of these misconceptions that were (and are still) taught by parents, teachers, peers, etc. around the world. Consequently, it is a propitious time to correct a few of them, so let’s spread the word from here. The point is…
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philsnowon · 8 years
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The Tamil equivalent of the proverb
"Having your cake and eating it too"
translates as
"A desire to have the moustache and drink the soup".
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josiebelladonna · 3 years
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observation: my fics are color coded.
have your cake and eat it—yellow (nothing as it seems was, too)
painted in a corner—green 
now it’s dark—blue
black diamonds—pink
up all night—purple 
the artist—orange 
amped and wired—black 
the mirror never lies/beautiful tragedy—gray
the dead trilogy—white
the contest—brown (or if you want to be specific, sepia)
fever in, fever out—red
how cool is that?
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