I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket

I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket

"I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1936 film "Follow the Fleet", where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Notable recordings

*Ella Fitzgerald - "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook" (1958)
*Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - "Ella and Louis Again" (1957)


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  • put all one's eggs in one basket — {v. phr.} To place all your efforts, interests, or hopes in a single person or thing. * /Going steady in high school is putting all your eggs in one basket too soon./ * /To buy stock in a single company is to put all your eggs in one basket./ *… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • put all one's eggs in one basket — {v. phr.} To place all your efforts, interests, or hopes in a single person or thing. * /Going steady in high school is putting all your eggs in one basket too soon./ * /To buy stock in a single company is to put all your eggs in one basket./ *… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • put\ all\ one's\ eggs\ in\ one\ basket — v. phr. To place all your efforts, interests, or hopes in a single person or thing. Going steady in high school is putting all your eggs in one basket too soon. To buy stock in a single company is to put all your eggs in one basket. He has… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • put all one's eggs in one basket — verb To rely on a single source (as of income), rather than diversifying. They felt that buying more real estate than they already had would be putting all their eggs in one basket …   Wiktionary

  • put all eggs in one basket — 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 …   New idioms dictionary

  • basket — noun (C) 1 a container made of thin pieces of plastic, wire, or wood woven together, used to carry things or put things in: a shopping basket | clothes/laundry basket (=for putting dirty clothes in) 2 a net with a hole at the bottom hung from a… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Ginger Rogers — Infobox Actor bgcolour = silver name = Ginger Rogers imagesize = 250px caption = Ginger Rogers birthname = Virginia Katherine McMath birthdate = birth date|1911|7|16|mf=y location = Independence, Missouri deathdate = death date and… …   Wikipedia

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