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31Sell your birthright for a mess of pottage — If a person sells their birthright for a mess of pottage, they accept some trivial financial or other gain, but lose something much more important. Sell your soul for a mess of pottage is an alternative form …
32mess of pottage — noun Something of trivial value, especially of immediate value. See Also: sell ones birthright for a mess of pottage …
33sell something for a mess of pottage — sell something for a ridiculously small amount Origin: with biblical allusion to the story of Esau, who sold his birthright for some bread and pottage of lentils (Gen. 25:31) …
34sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage — verb To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value for something of very low, but immediate value …
35Dog's Head and Pottage-Pot Court — Out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (W. Stow, 1722 Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps …
36mess of pottage — чечевичная похлебка …
37plum-pottage — …
38potage — Pottage Pot tage (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See {Pot}, and cf. {Porridge}, {Porringer}.] A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also {potage}.]… …
39kale — pottage. N. pottage or broth made of cabbage. N …
40keal — pottage. N. pottage or broth made of cabbage. N …