It is not worth selling one's soul for a mess ofpotage.
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He at least received a mess ofpotage; but we shall be paying for them to take our birthright and our sovereignty.
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It is an extraordinary and dreadful story of a party selling out its principles for virtually nothing—for a mess ofpotage.
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Let us not sell our birthright for a mess ofpotage.
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Why for such a tiny mess ofpotagedo they go on putting in this retrospective provision, this punitive provision, bringing the law into great disrepute for very little advantage?
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If one is trying to find some way of bridging over difficulties between both sides of industry, why throw such a provocative ingredient into thepotageas that?
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Fourthly, is not the sale of one's birthright, whether it be for a mess ofpotage, thirty pieces of silver or for a thousand quid, somewhat inconsistent with high integrity?
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Unpured, the soup is referred to as "potageparisien".
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Apotageis a category of thick soups, stews, or porridges, in some of which meat and vegetables are boiled together with water until they form into a thick mush.
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A "potagejulienne" is composed of carrots, beets, leeks, celery, lettuce, sorrel, and chervil cut in strips a half- "ligne" in thickness and about eight or ten "lignes" in length.
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Its possible ancestors include savory puddings such as crustades, fygeye or figge (apotageof mashed figs thickened with bread), creme boiled (a kind of stirred custard), and sippets.
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