put all one's eggs in one basket

[put all one's eggs in one basket] {v. phr.}

To place all your efforts, interests, or hopes in a single person or thing.

* /Going steady in high school is putting all your eggs in one basket too soon./

* /To buy stock in a single company is to put all your eggs in one basket./

* /He has decided to specialize in lathe work, although he knows it is risky to put all his eggs in one basket./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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