Have one's cake and eat it too
English
Meaning
To seek to have two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use). Examples "It's not possible to get your savings and keep the piggy bank intact. You can't have your cake and eat it too!" Sources Wiktionary Wikipedia
Equivalent idioms in other languages
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- 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
