Att äta kakan och ha den kvar
Swedish
Pronunciation
Att ata kakan och ha den kvar
Literal Translation
To eat the cookie and still have it
Equivalent idioms in other languages
This is how you express this idiom across languages and locales.
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- English
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Have one's cake and eat it too
- French
Avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre
to have the butter and the money from (selling) the butter - Portuguese
Querer ter sol na eira e chuva no nabal
Wanting the sun to shine on the threshing floor, while it rains on the turnip field