| So decadent, in fact, that they now have nothing to defend and will sell their souls and anything else, even their votes, for a mess of pottage. |
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| It is being replaced by trust which is bought and sold and loyalty which is expected and demanded for a mess of pottage. |
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| They have sold their golden birthright of American liberty for a mess of coward's pottage. |
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| Most meals would have been some form of stew, soup or pottage cooked in a cauldron over the central hearth of the house. |
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| Then sell this mess of pottage by throwing reason, history and the economic facts of reality down the memory hole. |
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| I added barley to what remained and boiled it until we had a thick pottage. |
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| Every day, the pupils would have milk or milk pottage for breakfast, a vegetable-based dinner at midday, and broth with a piece of bread for supper. |
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| So, Horace's simple dish would have been a vegetable stew or pottage, and it is most likely that the lagani added to it were small squares or strips of fried dough. |
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| Again, I think we are selling our soul for a mess of pottage, and we do not even know what is in that stew we are buying. |
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| Hence, I think it is apt to say that we are considering selling our soul for a mess of pottage. |
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| A knife or fork with horizontal handles does not sit naturally in the curved structure of a trencher or a pottage bowl. |
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| 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. |
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| It is a bargain of which thousands, like Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, have repented, but many, unhappily, like Esau, have repented too late. |
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| And there was a dearth in the land and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets. |
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| Voters have thrice said no to this mess of pottage. |
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| Small businesses are today being persecuted, while the larger shipyards have been sold off to the private sector for a pottage of lentils and their activities cut back. |
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| That phrase, that idiom, has been going over and over in my head as we talk about this agreement with Colombia, selling our soul for a mess of pottage. |
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| A new, thinner type of pottage becomes fashionable. |
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| Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habacuc, and he had boiled pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl: and was going into the field, to carry it to the reapers. |
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| The basic grain pottage could be elaborated with chopped vegetables, bits of meat, cheese, or herbs to produce dishes similar to polenta or risotto. |
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| The A23 joins the M23 motorway at Pease Pottage near Gatwick Airport. |
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