"Você não pode vender a vaca e beber o leite."

Translation: You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk.

[bl1zl3er]

Is this the Portuguese equivalent to: You can't have the cake and eat it too. ?

[Paulenrique]

Maybe it is an expression, but i must confess ive never heard of that. You might search on net about that

[Paulenrique]

In french this sentence would be "tu ne peux pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre".... well... i think it may mean you cant do/have everything at all.

[mgaristova]

hehe, that's what I thought to post after reading the sentence, but you were here before me.

[NedChamber]

If this is a real Portuguese expression, it must be! It seems to have the same meaning.

[DanielChui1]

Agree with you, NS English

[Smully63]

I also translated this as "you can't have your cake and eat it" - and it said it is wrong.

[intcreator]

Is this an expression in Portuguese at all?

[Loving_inch]

Like... The cow's milk?