pottage

• Mixed up in the astral pottage is a telepathic youngest brother who always beats his grandma at chess because he can read her mind; some unflattering satire on television space opera (one is being written by the Stone family, ostensibly by seasoned spaceman Roger Stone, but actually as a collaboration); a 90-year-old grandma named Hazel, an enchanting old adventuress. —  APRIL, 1953 Vol
• He has given up biblical Christianity for a mess of political pottage, Esau-style. —  Slice of Laodicea
• Man has not infrequently been willing to sell his soul for a mess of pottage--his chief concern being, not the loss of his soul, but the gain of the pottage. —  The Life Radiant
• 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
• I have sold you my birthright, dear boy, for a mess of pottage--a mere mess of pottage--a paltry two hundred and fifty dollars Ikey turned pale. —  Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life

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