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put all one's eggs in one basket

put all one's eggs in one basket verb: to rely on a single source (as of income), rather than diversifying.

Verb

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)

  1. (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.
    • 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.’”2016 March 30, Jane Wells, “Someone told Kobe Bryant he shouldn’t play basketball”, in CNBC

Forms of put all one's eggs in one basket

third-person singular presentputs all one's eggs in one basket
present participleputting all one's eggs in one basket
past participleput all one's eggs in one basket
pastput all one's eggs in one basket

Questions about put all one's eggs in one basket

What does put all one's eggs in one basket mean?
Put all one's eggs in one basket means to rely on a single source (as of income), rather than diversifying.
What part of speech is put all one's eggs in one basket?
Put all one's eggs in one basket is a verb.
What is the past tense of put all one's eggs in one basket?
The past tense of put all one's eggs in one basket is put all one's eggs in one basket.

Words near put all one's eggs in one basket in the dictionary

  1. put a stop to
  2. put a stopper to
  3. put about
  4. put across
  5. put ahead
  6. put all one's eggs in one basket
  7. put an egg in one's shoe and beat it
  8. put an egg in one's shoe and beaten it
  9. put an end to
  10. put and take
  11. put around

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