all one's eggs in one basket

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Frequency: 3.80 in modern English

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The state of having devoted all of one’s resources to one thing.

"The stock market decline wouldn’t have hurt him so badly if he hadn’t had all his eggs in one basket."
"At his age, he won't get another shot; he really has all his eggs in this one basket."
"We have 72% of our income from fares. That can work in good times. But COVID has exposed that we had all our eggs in one basket, dangerously over-reliant on one source of funding that is subject to the whims of the economy... or viruses."

From put all one's eggs in one basket.

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