yòu​yào​mǎ​r​hǎo​yòu​yào​mǎ​r​bù​chī​cǎo

you can't have your cake and eat it too

  1. both... and...
    Used in a repeating pattern to list multiple requirements, actions, or conditions that must be met simultaneously.
  2. horse
    horse; any animal of the horse family; large mammal used for riding, pulling carts, or farm work
  3. r particleaffix
    [erhua suffix]
    A suffix attached to a word to form a retroflex ending, often indicating a small size, a sense of familiarity, or turning a word into a noun.
  4. hǎo adjective
    good
    good; fine; nice; satisfactory; (of people) close or on intimate terms
  5. yòu
    non-Chinese
  6. both... and...
    Used in a repeating pattern to list multiple requirements, actions, or conditions that must be met simultaneously.
  7. horse
    horse; any animal of the horse family; large mammal used for riding, pulling carts, or farm work
  8. r particleaffix
    [erhua suffix]
    A suffix attached to a word to form a retroflex ending, often indicating a small size, a sense of familiarity, or turning a word into a noun.
  9. adverb
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  10. 吃草 chī​cǎo verb + noun
    to graze
    to graze; to eat grass