don't put all your eggs in one basket

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English[edit]

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

Proverb[edit]

don't put all your eggs in one basket

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

Usage notes[edit]

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

Translations[edit]

do not dedicate all your resources to one project

French: il ne faut pas mettre tous ses œufs dans le même panier (fr)
Polish: nie stawiaj wszystkiego na jedną kartę.
Russian: не клади все яйца в одну корзину (ne kladi vse jajca v odnu korzinu)
Spanish: no hay que poner todos los huevos en una sola canasta

References[edit]

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

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