"He’s having his cake and eating it."

[Odessa Dawn]

"If you looked through the window you’d think we were the perfect family but it’s tearing me apart. My friends say I should kick him out and only then will he realise what splitting up really means, because at the moment he’s having his cake and eating it."
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1- "Have your cake and eat it"
2- "Have cake and eat it too"

Unfortunately for ESL students, we commonly truncate common idioms, proverbs, clichés etc, expecting listeners to finish them for themselves.

A: 'So many people have given me their advice I just don't know what to do.'

B: 'That's your problem: too many cooks....'

A: 'I'll just have to wait and see what happens.'

B: 'That'll be best. Don't count your chickens....'

Doesn't this happen in other languages?

Rover

Does dropping the adverb too right here as Rover said "expecting listeners to finish them for themselves" or it is an optional?

[5jj]

It's optional.

[emsr2d2]

You could drop more than that and expect people to understand. It's such a well-known saying, you could probably get away with "He's having his cake ..."