mess of pottage

Others say that a mess of pottage is exactly what the group needs to survive.

They would sell our destiny for a mess of pottage!

Some say the committee has sold its birthright for a mess of pottage.

Cynics will say that they have sold their liberties for a mess of pottage.

Selling our birthright, thats what were doing - for a mess of pottage!

What was his "mess of pottage" to the birthright that the other had preserved?

The phrase 'mess of pottage' came to mean 'something of little value'.

You have traded the food of the gods for a mess of pottage.

A mess of pottage was a meal of vegetable stew.

But he was fooled into selling his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage.

We don't want someone who is going to sell our birthright for a mess of pottage .

I was out to hunt for greens, a mess of pottage for my supper.

Has Roseanna Cunningham sold out for a mess of pottage?

Ladies and gentlemen, we will not sell Parliament's birthright for a mess of pottage.

This is believed to be the origin of the English phrase "for a mess of pottage".

Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.

I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage.

All for a miserable mess of pottage.

My mother sold me for a mess of pottage, if you like, but she didn't sell me for advantage to herself.

Given her natural caution, indeed, one wonders if she would ever have given up the Deutschmark for this mess of pottage.

He was eating a mess of pottage and taking deep gulps of wine from a large ornamental cup.

We should not exchange this heritage for a mess of pottage of unknown taste and after-effects.

It didn't take Swann long to realise he'd sold his soul for a mess of pottage,' he explained. '

A mess of pottage a glass of wine,

The mess of pottage," S4N, 4th issue (February 1920). "