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• zibzanna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I cannot believe I spent my whole life not grasping this phrase. Thank you. I’m embarrassed how much my mind just expanded.

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  • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are a lot of clichés that may not make a lot of sense at face value. I’ve found some actually go a lot deeper than you expect, or may actually apply on multiple levels. Common wisdom often hits harder than I initially realized as I’ve gotten older…

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  • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve only had this phrase explained to me recently, and since then I can’t help but think it would make more sense if it was told the other way around; such as “you can’t eat your cake and have it too”.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or if it had originally been rendered as, “you can’t keep your cake and eat it, too!”

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    • Amanduh@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Six in one half dozen in the other

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  • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No problem, chief 👍

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• GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The problem is, that is the cake’s sole purpose. If it isn’t consumed it doesn’t mature and yield more cake. The analogy is a well known idiom, but it sounds a bit short when you think about it.

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  • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it’s more about restraint versus instant gratification. When people have called it’s usually meant to be shared in some kind of party, so if you go ahead and eat the cake alone you miss out on the sharing which could be said to be the cakes original purpose.

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