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Definition of pottage in English: pottagenoun ˈpɒtɪdʒˈpɑdɪdʒ mass nounarchaic Soup or stew. 〈古〉汤；炖菜 Example sentencesExamples - For this is all about capitalism - the transfer of loyalties bought for a mess of pottage, or more precisely the chance of a better television deal for the new and unlikely bedfellows.
- 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.
- 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.
- I added barley to what remained and boiled it until we had a thick pottage.
- Most meals would have been some form of stew, soup or pottage cooked in a cauldron over the central hearth of the house.
- Leek pottage was especially popular - but the crops used depended on what a peasant had grown in the croft around the side of his home.
- The pottage would be thickened with oats, barley or bread.
Phrasessell something for a mess of pottage archaic Sell something for a ridiculously small amount. 为蝇头小利出售 this is the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies Example sentencesExamples - Don't sell your birthright for a mess of pottage.
- 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.
- It is being replaced by trust which is bought and sold and loyalty which is expected and demanded for a mess of pottage.
- They have sold their golden birthright of American liberty for a mess of coward's pottage.
- 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.
- 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.
- A spokesman for the Action Group, said: ‘It is selling the public inheritance for a mess of pottage.’
- He is charged with giving up a distinctively Christian identity and selling its birthright for a mess of pottage.
- Is this what it was all for - jettisoning our heritage for a mess of pottage?
OriginMiddle English (as potage): from Old French potage 'that which is put into a pot'. Compare with potage and porridge. porridge from mid 16th century: At first porridge was a soup thickened with barley. The word is a 16th-century alteration of pottage (Middle English), which in turn comes from Old French potage ‘something put in a pot’. The porridge we are familiar with, consisting of oatmeal boiled in water or milk, is mentioned in the 1640s. The informal use of porridge to mean ‘prison’ dates from the 1950s. It probably derives from porridge as a typical prison food, though it might be based on a pun involving two meanings of stir, one as in ‘stir the porridge’ and the other a slang term for ‘prison’, which is perhaps from Romany sturbin ‘jail’. The term was immortalized by the BBC comedy series Porridge of the 1970s, which starred Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, a cynical but good-hearted old convict.
Definition of pottage in US English: pottagenounˈpädijˈpɑdɪdʒ archaic Soup or stew. 〈古〉汤；炖菜 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- The pottage would be thickened with oats, barley or bread.
- For this is all about capitalism - the transfer of loyalties bought for a mess of pottage, or more precisely the chance of a better television deal for the new and unlikely bedfellows.
- I added barley to what remained and boiled it until we had a thick pottage.
- Most meals would have been some form of stew, soup or pottage cooked in a cauldron over the central hearth of the house.
- Leek pottage was especially popular - but the crops used depended on what a peasant had grown in the croft around the side of his home.
- 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.
Phrasessell something for a mess of pottage archaic Sell something for a ridiculously small amount. 为蝇头小利出售 this is the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- 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.
- A spokesman for the Action Group, said: ‘It is selling the public inheritance for a mess of pottage.’
- 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.
- Is this what it was all for - jettisoning our heritage for a mess of pottage?
- He is charged with giving up a distinctively Christian identity and selling its birthright for a mess of pottage.
- They have sold their golden birthright of American liberty for a mess of coward's pottage.
- Don't sell your birthright for a mess of pottage.
- It is being replaced by trust which is bought and sold and loyalty which is expected and demanded for a mess of pottage.
OriginMiddle English (as potage): from Old French potage ‘that which is put into a pot’. Compare with potage and porridge. |