GrandConjuraton posted...
Well, I'll put it a different way. The expression more commonly used today didn't make sense to me because the meaning wasn't explicit; I always took it as "here's your cake, but you can't enjoy it". It's not until seeing the original meaning that I can get the intended meaning for how it's used now.
It certainly doesn't help that "having cake" almost always just means eating it in the first place.
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