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1put 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./ *… …
2put 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./ *… …
3put\ in\ one's\ way — • put in the way of • put in one s way v. phr. To set before (someone); give to (someone); show the way to; help toward. After Joe graduated, the coach put him in the way of a good job. The librarian put me in the way of a lot of new material on… …
4put all one's eggs in(to) one basket — (informal) To risk all on one enterprise ● egg …
5put in one's hands — index delegate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
6put on one's guard — index alert, notice (give formal warning) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
7put on one's thinking cap — ► put on one s thinking cap informal meditate on a problem. Main Entry: ↑thinking …
8put up one's hair — To dress the hair up on the head instead of wearing it hanging, once the mark of passage from girlhood to womanhood • • • Main Entry: ↑hair …
9put on one's thinking-cap — To devote some time to thinking about some problem • • • Main Entry: ↑think …
10put\ in\ one's\ two\ cents\ worth — • two cents • feel like two cents noun informal 1. Something not important or very small; almost nothing. Paul was so angry that he said for two cents he would quit the team. When John saw that the girl he was scolding was lame, he felt like two… …
