all one's eggs in one basket

From put all one's eggs in one basket.

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all one's eggs in one basket pl (plural only)

1. The state of having invested heavily in just one area.

   The stock market decline wouldn’t have hurt him so badly if he hadn’t had all his eggs in one basket.

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

   At his age, he won't get another shot; he really has all his eggs in this one basket.

   • 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 50:

     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.