IdiomDaily Life
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Englishput all one's eggs in one basket
Meaning: To invest all one's hopes or plans in only one possible outcome.
Example: “Apply to several schools; don't put all your eggs in one basket.”
Origin: A farm wife carrying all her eggs to market in a single basket would lose them all if she dropped it. Similar advice appears in Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605), and the English proverb is recorded from the 17th century.
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