don't put all your eggs in one basket

English

Proverb

don't put all your eggs in one basket

  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

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

Translations

References

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