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don't put all your eggs in one basket

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English

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Eggs in a basket. Let's hope there are other eggs in another basket...

Proverb

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don'tputallyoureggsinonebasket

  1. Do not dedicate all your resources to one project.
  2. Do not count on any one thing to safeguard what is valuable.

Usage notes

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Its use in print has been traced to the novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes in the early 1600s.

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Translations

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do not dedicate all your resources to one project

References

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  • Gregory Y. Titelman,Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996,→ISBN, p. 70.
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