Noun:

ସୁପ୍ ମେସ୍ |,

mess of pottage's Usage Examples:

women were no longer content to ‘sell [their] birthright … for a “mess of pottage”’, either in their labouring or their intimate lives.

was often used for cooked or liquid dishes in particular, as in the "mess of pottage" (porridge or soup) or Eton mess.

is the origin of the English phrase "to sell one"s birthright for a mess of pottage".

This is exemplified by Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage, a "profane person .

"birthright" (bekhorah בְּכוֹרָה), but he sold the right to Jacob for a mess of pottage, i.

A mess of pottage is something immediately attractive but of little value taken foolishly and carelessly in exchange for something more distant and perhaps.

saying that "TVNZ [had exchanged Close Up"s] current affairs for a mess of pottage".

the Modified Missouri Plan had, "like Esau, sold their soul for a mess of pottage" and had made the judicial branch subordinate to the legislative branch.

This is the origin of the English phrase "to sell one"s birthright for a mess of pottage".

infidels, willing, apparently, like Esau, to sell their birthright for a mess of pottage.

trades his birthright in Genesis 25:29–34; from this story, the phrase "mess of pottage" means something attractive but of little value being exchanged for.

The disbelieving world would sell thee so; / Head turned with sophistries, and heart grown cold, / For a vile mess of pottage it would throw /.

narrator closes the novel by saying "I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage", meaning that he regrets trading in his blackness for whiteness.

Synonyms:

value, economic value,

Antonyms:

importance, unimportance, worthlessness,