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单词 have it both ways
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have it both ways

Benefit from two incompatible ways of thinking or behaving: countries cannot have it both ways: the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs...
  • They were clever and funny, and succeeded in having it both ways - appealing to cheesecake instincts while parodying them at the same time.
  • He was trying to have it both ways, being an administration player one day and an outside critic the next.
  • We can't have it both ways: you can't have the lowest income taxes in Europe, the best hospitals and schools and cheap petrol too.
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