Tag: a recipe for disaster

  • Put all of your eggs in one basket

    Put all of your eggs in one basket

    Proverb: Put all of your eggs in one basket Variety is the spice of life, as they say, and it’s also a good reason not to put all of your eggs in one basket. Imagine you’re a little girl living on a small family farm in rural Japan. Your mother wants to make tamagoyaki for lunch,…

  • A recipe for disaster

    A recipe for disaster

    Phrase: A recipe for disaster Some people are excellent cooks, and some people are terrible cooks. Very rarely, however, has someone died from lousy cooking unless the situation involved a recipe for disaster. There are moments you look at what someone is doing and say, ‘That is not going to work out well.’ In other words,…