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• You can’t have cake and the topping, too.

This idiom means that you can’t have everythink the way you want it, especially if your desires are contradictory.
• You can’t have your cake and eat it.

This idiom means that you can’t have things both ways. For example, you can’t have very low taxes and a high
standart of state care.
• You can’t hide elephants in mouse holes.

Means that some issues/problems/challenges cannot be hidden/concealed but you have to be faced and dealt with.
• You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

If something ins’t very good to start with, you can’t do much to improve it.
• You can’t make an omelette without breakeng eggs.

This idiom meas that in order to achieve something or make progress, there are often losers in the process.
• You can’t take it with you.

Enjoy life, enjoy what you have and don’t worry about not having a lot, especially money… beacause once you’re
dead, you can’t take it with you’. For some, it means to use up all you have before you die because it’s no use to you
afterwards.
• You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

It is a difficult to make someone change the way they do something when they have been doing it the same way for a

long time.

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