to put all your eggs in one basket
4
5.8
- idiom
- Informal
:
no poner todos los huevos en una sola canasta
- Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- put all your eggs in one basket," he said
OK, there's an old adage, don't put all your eggs in one basket.
- OK, there's an old adage, don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Examples
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Advisors often warn clients not to put all their eggs in one basket during financial planning.
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It's a matter of not putting all your eggs in one basket.
Blog text (26) -
Putting all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea.
Blog text (32) -
You shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket.
Blog text (1) -
Don't put all your eggs in one basket, especially when that basket is finite and irreplaceable.
Blog text (1) -
It's extremely risky to put all your eggs in one basket when investing your savings.
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A little here, a little there—it's not wise to put all your eggs in one basket.
Synonyms
15
5.2
Put all your time, money, and effort into one plan
7
6.4
To risk everything to try to succeed
1
8.5
To risk everything you own on one decision
1
8.2
To risk everything you have on one choice
To risk all your money because you are sure something will happen
Antonyms
How Risky
- Informal
1
8.2
- Informal
4
5.8
2
3.0
- Informal
8
6.8
63
5.3
42
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
put + all + your + eggs + in + one + basket
The literal image—placing all fragile eggs into a single basket—clearly evokes the risk of losing everything if that basket is lost, so a learner who knows the words can often infer the general warning about risking all resources on one option. However, this is a conventionalized proverb that requires mapping the concrete image onto the abstract domain of resources/opportunities, so the full idiomatic nuance is not purely compositional.
Etymology
Put all your eggs in one basket comes from a simple image: imagine carrying all your eggs in one basket, and if the basket falls everything breaks. So, it means 'to risk everything on a single plan'.