To put all your eggs in one basket

Learning English Conversations

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Education, Language Learning

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🗓️ 1 July 2013

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

How many eggs should you put in one basket? And what has that got to do with taking risks?

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0:00.0	This is a feature from BBC learning English.
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0:09.0	forward slash podcasts.
0:11.0	The English We Speak
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to the English We Speak.
0:18.0	I'm Faye, and with me today is Rob.
0:21.0	Rob, what are you doing?
0:23.0	This is one, two.
0:25.0	Oh hi, I'm just counting up all my money.
0:29.0	Actually, Faye, could I borrow a hundred pounds please?
0:32.0	A hundred pounds? That's a lot of money. What do you need it for?
0:36.0	Well with all my savings plus your one hundred pounds I'll just have enough.
0:42.0	For what? To invest in this new company my friend is setting up.
0:46.4	He's invented this machine where you can talk to people anywhere in the world and there are no wires or cables. It's going to be a huge success.
0:55.2	Rob, that sounds to me like a mobile phone. That's already been invented.
1:00.5	Yeah, but you can also type messages on it and send them to other people.
1:05.0	Absolutely amazing.
1:07.0	If this is successful, my investment is going to make me millions of pounds.
1:11.0	Rob, calm down.
1:13.0	Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
1:16.0	Uh, what?
1:17.0	I'm not investing in eggs.
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