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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