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单词 sell something for a mess of pottage
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sell something for a mess of pottage

Sell something for a ridiculously small amount: this is the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies...
  • I have a sense we have sold our birthright for a mess of pottage, which has been the main benefit of unrestrained mass immigration of recent years.
  • A spokesman for the Action Group, said: ‘It is selling the public inheritance for a mess of pottage.’
  • Don't sell your birthright for a mess of pottage.
With biblical allusion to the story of Esau, who sold his birthright (Gen. 25:31)
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