put all one's eggs in one basket

Meaning: (idiomatic)Torelyon asinglesource (as ofincome), rather thandiversifying.They felt that buying more real estate than they already had would beputting all their eggs in one basket.2016March 30, Jane Wells, “Someone told Kobe Bryant he shouldn’t play basketball”, inCNBC‎[1]:Fortunately,Bryantignored 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’tput all my eggs in one basket? If I don’t focus 100 percent on this, I’m never going to get there.’”2024August 21, Pip Dunn, “When Sprinters left the starting blocks”, inRAIL, number1016, page48:BR had a policy of notputting all of its eggs in one basketwhen it came to procuring rolling stock, with locomotives and multiple units built by a variety of manufacturers.

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EN: One has put all one's eggs in one basket.
ES: Se lo juega uno todo a una carta...

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