I like “have your cake and eat it too” - partly because it’s a pointless saying. You can always have cake and eat it, but you can’t eat your cake and then also

I like “have your cake and eat it too” - partly because it’s a pointless saying. You can always have cake and eat it, but you can’t eat your cake and then also have it. So what people should really say is that someone wants to “eat their cake and have it too” but they don’t. But that’s really what they mean by the saying “have your cake and eat it too”.