put all one's eggs in one basket
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[edit]put all one's eggs in one basket (third-person singular simple present puts all one's eggs in one basket, present participle putting all one's eggs in one basket, simple past and past participle put all one's eggs in one basket)
- (idiomatic) To rely on a single source (as of income), rather than diversifying.
- They felt that buying more real estate than they already had would be putting all their eggs in one basket.
- 2016 March 30, Jane Wells, “Someone told Kobe Bryant he shouldn’t play basketball”, in CNBC[1]:
- Fortunately, Bryant ignored that advice and doubled down on his dream. “I thought, ‘If this is so hard to accomplish, how in the world am I going to accomplish it if I don’t put all my eggs in one basket? If I don’t focus 100 percent on this, I’m never going to get there.’”
- 2024 August 21, Pip Dunn, “When Sprinters left the starting blocks”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 48:
- BR had a policy of not putting all of its eggs in one basket when it came to procuring rolling stock, with locomotives and multiple units built by a variety of manufacturers.
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[edit]to rely on a single source
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