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单词 eat one's cake and have it
释义

cake /kāk/

noun
  1. A breadlike composition enriched with additions such as sugar, eggs, spices, currants, peel, etc
  2. A separately made mass of such composition
  3. A piece of dough that is baked
  4. A small loaf of fine bread
  5. Any flattened mass baked, as oatcake, or formed by pressure or drying, as of soap, clay, snow, blood
  6. Cattle cake
  7. A madcap or fool (archaic sl)
transitive verb and intransitive verb

To form into a cake or hard mass

ORIGIN: ON kaka

cākˈing noun and adjective

cākˈy or cakˈey adjective

cake hole noun (slang)

Mouth

cakeˈwalk noun

  1. A dance developed from a prancing movement once performed by black Americans in competition for a cake
  2. Something accomplished with supreme ease

intransitive verb

  1. To perform a cakewalk or execute similar movements
  2. To accomplish with supreme ease

caking coal noun

A bituminous coal that fuses into a mass in burning

a piece of cake (informal)

Something very easy to do

cakes and ale

Vaguely, all the good things of life

go or sell like hot cakes see under hot1

have one's cake and eat it or eat one's cake and have it

To have the advantage of both alternatives

his cake is dough

His hope has failed

take the cake (slang)

  1. To carry off the honours
  2. To be the ultimate in idiocy or intolerable behaviour (ironic)
  3. To top it all

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