don’t put all your eggs in one basket

(proverb) don’t put all of your risk into one thing

Example Sentences:

If you are saving for your retirement, you should make sure that you don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Make sure you put some money into stocks, mutual funds, and bonds.

Billy decided to travel to Paris to live with a girl he met on the internet. He had to sell all of his things in order to get an airplane ticket. Billy’s friends warned him that he was putting all of his eggs in one basket, but he didn’t listen.

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Similar idioms:

1. basket case