{"id":1324,"date":"2024-04-11T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2024-04-12T00:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:31:36","slug":"where-do-you-put-your-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/fr\/where-do-you-put-your-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do you put your eggs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can you guess what this means?\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DUHDg8LcfHM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket&#8221;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s another strange but common English expression. Have you ever heard it? If not, you&#8217;re bound to hear it sooner or later. To <em>&#8220;put all your eggs in one basket&#8221;<\/em> is generally viewed as a risky thing to do. For that reason, you will often hear the advice, <em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t put all your eggs in one basket,&#8221;<\/em> or <em>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to put all our eggs in one basket,&#8221;<\/em> or <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m hesitant to put all my eggs in one basket.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Does it Mean?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To put all of your eggs in one basket <\/em>means that you are investing all of your resources &#8211; such as time, money and energy &#8211; into just one endeavor or opportunity. You have no back-up plan. This makes you considerably vulnerable to loss. For example, let&#8217;s say a high school graduate wants to go to university, but she only applies to one university &#8211; her top choice. We could say that <em>she&#8217;s putting all of her eggs in one basket.<\/em> If that particular university doesn&#8217;t admit her, she will lose out on going to university that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Examples:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some examples of how this expression is used:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>He knew the risks of putting all his eggs in one basket when he invested his entire savings in a single stock.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Instead of focusing solely on one career path, she diversified her skills to avoid the danger of putting all her eggs in one basket.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The company&#8217;s decision to rely solely on one supplier was criticized as putting all their eggs in one basket<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It Makes Sense<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike many English idioms, this one actually makes sense if you picture it. Let&#8217;s say that you have two baskets and a bunch of eggs. If you put all of the eggs in one basket, and you lose that basket, well, you will lose all of the eggs. However, if you diversity &#8211; and you put a few eggs in both baskets &#8211; then, if you lose a basket, you won&#8217;t lose everything. You will still have some eggs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don&#8217;t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are learning English, I recommend that you don&#8217;t put all your eggs in one basket. I suggest you diversify your tactics. Instead of simply reading my blog, you should watch movies in English, read books or magazines in English, speak English whenever you get a chance, listen to English news and podcasts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@EnglishWithCheryl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subscribe to my YouTube channel<\/a>, subscribe to my newsletter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at the bottom of my homepage<\/a>) or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/fr\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contact me about taking online classes with me<\/a>. The more you immerse yourself, the quicker your English will improve and the more enriching every English conversation becomes! I look forward to hearing from you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Cheryl<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket&#8221; Here&#8217;s another strange but common English expression. Have you ever heard it? If not, you&#8217;re bound to hear it sooner or later. To &#8220;put all your eggs in one basket&#8221; is generally viewed as a risky thing to do. For that reason, you will often hear the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/fr\/where-do-you-put-your-eggs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where do you put your eggs?<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,12,13],"tags":[54,53,52,45],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advanced","category-english-expressions","category-intermediate","category-vocabulary-2","tag-english-expression","tag-english-idiom","tag-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket","tag-vocabulary","entry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Idiom5_EggsInBasket_IMG.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Idiom5_EggsInBasket_IMG.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Idiom5_EggsInBasket_IMG.png?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Idiom5_EggsInBasket_IMG.png?fit=750%2C422&ssl=1",750,422,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Idiom5_EggsInBasket_IMG.png?fit=750%2C422&ssl=1",750,422,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Idiom5_EggsInBasket_IMG.png?fit=1536%2C864&ssl=1",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Idiom5_EggsInBasket_IMG.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1",1920,1080,true],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Idiom5_EggsInBasket_IMG.png?fit=18%2C10&ssl=1",18,10,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.englishwithcheryl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Idiom5_EggsInBasket_IMG.png?fit=1568%2C882&ssl=1",1568,882,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket&#8221; Here&#8217;s another strange but common English expression. Have you ever heard it? If not, you&#8217;re bound to hear it sooner or later. To &#8220;put all your eggs in one basket&#8221; is generally viewed as a risky thing to do. For that reason, you will often hear the advice, &#8220;Don&#8217;t put all your eggs in one basket,&#8221; or &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to put all our eggs in one basket,&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m hesitant to put all my eggs in one basket.&#8221; What Does it Mean? 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