pottage in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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to sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage BIBL

vendre son droit d'aînesse pour un plat de lentilles

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We have traded our calling for a bowl of pottage.

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We had sold our birthright for the proverbial mess of pottage.

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So, did we sell our sovereignty for a mess of pottage?

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We have sold our birthright for a mess of pottage, as the saying goes.

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They wail because the party has sold out to dons and garrisons and have traded the party's rich legacy for a mess of political pottage.

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Pottage would not say how long the students will be suspended from school but added that division officials will work with them.

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Pottage said that when the investigation is completed, officials will consider all measures to ensure it doesn't happen again.

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When people of higher economic rank, such as nobles, ate pottage, they would add more expensive ingredients such as meats.

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At a time when the populace ate to live, the masses put up with heavy, bland pottage at every meal.

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Thrifty cottagers made salads from soft, lush leafy weeds or added them to the stewpot of pottage over the hearth.

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