English Translation
Tom put all his eggs in one basket.
What is the literal translation? Does ‘kortin’ come from ‘kortti’, card? So ‘everything is dependent on one card’?
It’s similar to the Swedish expression “sätta allt på ett kort”, to risk everything in a single attempt.
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Okay, so ‘kortin’ really does refer to a card. We have a similar expression in Danish 