Sentence examples for mess of pottage from inspiring English sources

Voters have thrice said no to this mess of pottage.

Why did they sell their birthrights for a mess of pottage?

He cannot trade this core principle for the miserable mess of pottage offered by Cameron yesterday.

With a U-turn so spectacular it was positively political, David Archer changed his mind about selling the family farm for a mess of pottage.

On Friday I visited the home of friends for dinner, and we spent considerable time discussing the seven no-hitters by Nolan Ryan, who had been traded by the Mets for a mess of pottage.

I say because George Wallace used the issue to deliberately divide American from American in their native land, simply to chase the mess of pottage, some might say, that is the presidency.

And he and Brother [Al] Sharpton and Sister Melissa [Harris-Perry] and others, they have sold their souls for a mess of Obama pottage".

With broad brushstrokes, our alpine sage showed us how the west had sold its soul for a mess of secular pottage and sham materialism.

I've never yet heard anyone accuse Swinton of selling her art-cinema birthright for a mess of Tinseltown pottage - perhaps because of the quality of her US work, perhaps because people think of her operating there as a foreign body in the studio soup.

And he and Brother Sharpton and Sister Melissa and others, they have sold their souls for a mess of Obama pottage.

The list also includes Gerald Levin, who engineered Time Warner's merger with AOL at the top of the Internet bubble; even at the time it seemed obvious that he was trading half his original shareholders' birthright for a mess of cyber-pottage.