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a basket case

1. someone who is crazy and unable to organize their life. She'll never get a job. She's a basket case.

2. a very poor country which needs economic help from other countries, or a business that is in a very bad financial situation. Twenty years ago the country was an economic basket case.

See also: case

put all your eggs in one basket

to risk losing everything by putting all your efforts or all your money into one plan or one course of action. If you're going to invest the money, my advice would be don't put all your eggs in one basket.

See also: all, egg

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put all your eggs in one basket

to risk your money or your reputation in support of one idea or plan. I didn't want to put all my eggs in one basket, so I played five different lottery games, but lost all of them.

Etymology: based on the idea that if all the eggs you got from your chickens are in one basket (= container) and you drop it, you will lose all your eggs

See also: all, egg