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idiomyou can't have it both waysspoken used in order to say that someone should choose one way of doing things and accept the results, instead of wanting advantages from both of two possible decisions or actions:You can't have it both ways - if we tell children not to talk to strangers, we can't blame them for being rude to people who talk to them in the street.The Foreign Secretary cannot have it both ways - claiming to want to be at the heart of Europe but then refusing to make any commitments.
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