Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
- Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
- How common is this idiom?: This idiom is still widely used today, especially in business and financial contexts, but its usage has slightly decreased in recent years, making it more of a common saying among older generations.
- Literal Meaning: To literally put all your eggs in one basket, which would make them vulnerable to breakage if the basket were to be dropped.
- Actual Idiomatic Meaning: To diversify and not put all your resources or hopes into one thing, in case it fails or doesn't work out.
- I'm not going to put all my eggs in one basket by investing all my money in one stock.
- She decided not to put all her eggs in one basket and applied to multiple colleges.
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