英语习语：put all your eggs in one basket

put all your eggs in one basket If you say that someone is putting all their eggs in one basket, you are pointing out that they are putting all their efforts or resources into one course of action and this means that they will have no alternatives left if it fails. It was not as though the banks were unaware of the dangers of putting all their eggs in one basket. Just a few years before, they had lost billions on loans to the Third World. Don't put your eggs in one basket; study hard at school and always keep an alternative job in mind. This expression is often varied. How could the BBC have put so many eggs in one basket? Why didn't they test the show with a pilot episode or a limited-run series? Countries such as Puerto Haiti, Nepal, and Mexico have put their development eggs in the tourism basket, spending millions of dollars from public funds to build the sorts of facilities that foreign tourists demand.