Like "putting all your eggs in one basket", but referring to when all of the Polish Royalty crashed in the plane accident.
To risk losing everything by putting all your efforts or all your money into one plan or one course of action.
"Man! I just lost all my money on one roulette roll!"
Wow, you were really putting all of your Poles in one plane on that one.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)