📚 verb • entry_id 52263
sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage
Meanings (ES + gloss)
venderse por un plato de lentejas
To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value, for something of very low, but immediate value.
An elector, who by his vote should contribute to the establishment of a constitution having for its effect, instead of the greatest happiness of the greatest number, the greatest o…
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