hang all one’s bells on one horse—(UK arch.) leave all one’s property to one child:
- I’ll not hang all my bells on one horse. I’ll not leave all my property to one son.
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase put all one’s money upon the wrong horse—(also: put one’s money on a scratched horse) base one’s plans on a wrong guess about the result of smth.:
- Members will keenly feel the nature of the mistake when I say that we put all our money upon the wrong horse.
put all one’s eggs in one basket—allow all one’s hopes, money, etc. to depend on one event; risk everything at once:
- Personally, I prefer when at all possible not to put all my eggs in one basket, no matter how nice the basket.