Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
Mario and Twenty unveil the origin, confirm the meaning, and assess the value of "put all your eggs in one basket" — and it does not start on a farm.
The oldest record in English is from 1662, in Giovanni Torriano's The Second Alphabet of Proverbial Phrases. Torriano was an Italian language teacher in London compiling Italian proverbs for English readers, and his entry reads: "to put all one's eggs in a panyard, viz. to hazard all in one bottom." A panyard is a basket. A bottom, in 1662, is a ship — not a crate in the hold, the hold itself. So the original warning is about putting all your…
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