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)