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  • n  a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat
  • n  thick (often creamy) soup

  • Esau, who traded away his birthright for a mess of pottage.
  • Not to mention bouillon cubes, pea pottage, dried broccoli, instant-noodle dishes and literally hundreds of sauces, flavorings and other prepared foods, particularly those that are .
  • But it was the most unsavory pottage of all, as Chang soon found.
News & Articles

  • Paul Ince Threatened to Knock out Fourth Official, Fans to Wear Masks in Support
    The fallout from Paul Ince 's five-game stadium ban has continued with excerpts of the official Football Association report coming to light. According to a pdf transcript of the report, published by 101 Great Goals , the Blackpool manager is reported to have threatened to "knock out" fourth official Mark Pottage.  The minutes of the FA disciplinary hearing quote referee Oliver Langford giving an ...
    Oct. 17, 2013 - Bleacher Report
Quotes

  • Zell Miller in MSNBC
    To actually trade in the distinctiveness of your shared memory because of what's perceived to be a difference in the standard of living, seems to me a sorry deal, it's Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage. That's my uninformed message... Simon Schama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEYd7-lW3cXUdWTpVw_d3RsT4JGHw New Zealand Herald http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm%3Fc_id%3D1%26objectid%3D10638103&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG8E5aU4Cnz7qeDSBd5gia_wWCWeg Apr 12, 2010 76481 103354 pottage As a congressional candidate 40 years ago, Miller argued President Johnson was a Southerner who sold his birthright for a mess of dark pottage" because of his support for the Civil Rights Act.

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