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anything of trivial value
Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage
How To Use mess of pottage In A Sentence
- Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage
- But beware of insulting the mess of pottage, which is as respectable as when newly out of the pot. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852
- B : Do you think I'll depart from my correct stand just for a mess of pottage?
- Or will they instead, like so many lambs led willingly to the slaughter, allow themselves to be demutualised - like Esau in the Bible surrender their birthright for a mess of pottage?
- And, when you come to think of it, Jacob's mess of pottage is the most expensive dish on record. Janey Canuck in the West
- For this is all about capitalism - the transfer of loyalties bought for a mess of pottage, or more precisely the chance of a better television deal for the new and unlikely bedfellows.
