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Mess Of Pottage

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Noun

1. mess of pottage

anything of trivial value

Example Sentences:
'Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Mess Of Pottage

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a material gain involving the sacrifice of a higher value

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