又要馬兒好,又要馬兒不吃草
Chinese
Pronunciation
You Yao Ma Er Hao, You Yao Ma Er Bu Chi Cao
Literal Translation
to want one's horse to run fast without letting it graze
Equivalent idioms in other languages
This is how you express this idiom across languages and locales.
List
Map
- English
+1
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