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all one's eggs in one basket

Investing heavily in just one area.
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the stock market decline wouldn’t have hurt him so badly if he hadn’t had all his eggs in one basket.

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all one's eggs in one basketDevoting all of one’s resources to one thing.
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alle Eier in einem Korb

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