don’t put all your eggs in one basket
- don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Don’t chance everything on a single venture, but spread your risk. To put all one’s eggs in one basket is commonly used as a metaphorical phrase.
1662 G. TORRIANO Italian Proverbial Phrases 125 To put all ones Eggs in a Paniard, viz. to hazard all in one bottom [ship].
1710 S. PALMER Proverbs 344 Don’t venture all your Eggs in One Basket.
1894 ‘M. TWAIN’ Pudd’nhead Wilson in Century Mag. XLVII. VI. 817 Behold, the fool saith, ‘Put not all thine eggs in the one basket’—which is but a manner of saying, ‘Scatter your money and your attention’; but the wise man saith, ‘Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket.’
1967 RIDOUT & WITTING English Proverbs Explained 46 Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
2002 Washington Post 23 May E3 What part of ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ isn’t clear? Putting all or most of your money into one stock is gambling, not investing.
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket — is a idiomatic phrase meaning that one should not focus all his or her resources on one hope, possibility or avenue of success. IdentificationBecause of how common this expression is used in daily life, it is sometimes classified as a… … Wikipedia
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put all your eggs in one basket — to depend completely on just one idea, plan, or person so that you have no other possibilities if things go wrong The basic advice with investment is don t put all your eggs in one basket … English dictionary
don't put all your eggs in one basket — proverb don t risk everything on the success of one venture … Useful english dictionary
all your eggs in one basket — If you put all your eggs in one basket, you risk everything at once, instead of trying to spread the risk. (This is often used as a negative imperative Don t put all your eggs in one basket . Have your eggs in one basket is also used.) … The small dictionary of idiomes
all your eggs in one basket — If you put all your eggs in one basket, you risk everything at once, instead of trying to spread the risk. (This is often used as a negative imperative Don t put all your eggs in one basket . Have your eggs in one basket is also used.)… … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
put all eggs in one basket — put all (your) eggs in one basket to risk losing everything by putting all your efforts or all your money into one plan or one course of action. If you re going to invest the money, my advice would be don t put all your eggs in one basket … New idioms dictionary
