Any way you cut the cake, weddings are a big business in the United States.

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The moral case, although easy to sympathise with, is a way of trying to have one's cake and eat it.

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Conservation easements offer a neat way for wealthy environmentalists like Bacon to have their cake and eat it, too.

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So we had experienced some flooding before and then, Ike came and just, icing of the cake - if I could put that way.

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Second - as if you needed telling - retailing will for some time remain all about trying to win a bigger slice of a cake that cannot grow in any meaningful way.

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Actually, they simply want to have their cake and eat it too: they dream of a way out of a crisis generated by an excess of public debt that does not entail a retrenchment of government activities.

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To its detractors, their very multiplicity shows the Third Way's fundamental hollowness: a doctrine that says you can have your cake and eat it too is a recipe for ducking every hard decision.

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