Stamp it out
COULD we please take that silly phase ‘to have one’s cake and eat it’ out of public discourse?
As one commentator remarked, what on earth is the point of having one’s cake if one either cannot or will not eat it?
The only person of whom I am aware who pursued that policy, with her wedding cake, was Miss Haversham in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and it didn’t seem to serve her very well.
HEATHER MCMILLLAN Birchwood
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