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Saying - "All your eggs in one basket" | ||
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 4 19 March 2008 at 4:46am | IP Logged |
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What saying exists in your language to express,
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket." or the rather similar saying, "Don't place all your bets on one horse." We've covered individual words before, but I'd love to hear the diversity of sayings and expressions that exist for this concept. [Edit - Thanks Captain Haddock. I removed some extraneous definite articles] Edited by DaraghM on 19 March 2008 at 8:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 2 of 4 19 March 2008 at 6:17am | IP Logged |
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The Japanese equivalent is somewhat plain.
一事業に全財産を投じるな — Ichi-jigyou-ni zenzaisan-o toujiru na. "Don't devote your entire fortune to a single enterprise." I'm not sure it's a particularly common saying. Edited by Captain Haddock on 19 March 2008 at 8:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Tonitrus Groupie United States Joined 6091 days ago 64 posts - 68 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 4 23 March 2008 at 1:15am | IP Logged |
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In Latin, it's
Noli commitere omnia uni navis. NOH lee coh mit TEAR reh OM nee a OOH nee NAH wees. Literally, don't commit everything to one ship. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Linglot Bilingual Octoglot Newbie Spain Joined 6052 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, French, English, Esperanto, Portuguese, Italian, Galician Studies: Russian, German, Occitan, Greek, Basque, Romanian, Polish, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Swedish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 4 of 4 02 August 2008 at 1:23pm | IP Logged |
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In Spanish, you would say:
No te lo juegues todo a una carta. "Don't play/bet it all on one card." 1 person has voted this message useful |
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