mess of pottage

Other forms: messes of pottage

Definitions of mess of pottage
  1. noun
    anything of trivial value
    “Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage”
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    type of:
    economic value, value
    the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else
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