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have one's cake and eat it too in Italian

have one's cake and eat it too in Italian

avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca
verb
(idiomatic) To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use).
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