Idiom 28 – Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

If you have a large sum of money to invest, it’s a good idea to put it into more than one venture. If you put all your money into one investment and it fails, you lose everything.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket = Setz nicht alles auf eine Karte

If you’d like to listen to a short audio from the BBC explaining this idiom, check out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theenglishwespeak/2013/06/130625_tews_129_eggs_in_one_basket.shtml