"sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "In allusion to the Biblical character Esau, who sold his birthright for a meal of lentil stew (Genesis 25:29-34).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sells one's birthright for a mess of pottage",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold one's birthright for a mess of pottage",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold one's birthright for a mess of pottage",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sell<,,sold> one's birthright for a mess of pottage"
      },
      "expansion": "sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage (third-person singular simple present sells one's birthright for a mess of pottage, present participle selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage, simple past and past participle sold one's birthright for a mess of pottage)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
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          "kind": "other",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1832, Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional Code",
          "text": "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 or supposed greatest happiness of the ruling few at the expense of the happiness of the many, would, supposing himself to become in consequence of the misrule, a sufferer to a greater amount than that of the benefit received by his vote, be an Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value, for something of very low, but immediate value."
      ],
      "id": "en-sell_one's_birthright_for_a_mess_of_pottage-en-verb-fag1SB7-",
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "unfavorable",
          "unfavorable"
        ],
        [
          "exchange",
          "exchange"
        ],
        [
          "deferred",
          "deferred"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "immediate",
          "immediate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value, for something of very low, but immediate value."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
        },
        {
          "word": "my kingdom for a horse"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "myydä esikoisoikeutensa hernerokasta"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "egy tál lencséért eladja elsőszülöttségét"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "note": "no equivalent term in Polish",
          "sense": "Translations"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "but see sprzedawać za tanio"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "sprzedać za tanio"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "venderse por un plato de lentejas"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "In allusion to the Biblical character Esau, who sold his birthright for a meal of lentil stew (Genesis 25:29-34).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sells one's birthright for a mess of pottage",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold one's birthright for a mess of pottage",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold one's birthright for a mess of pottage",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "sell<,,sold> one's birthright for a mess of pottage"
      },
      "expansion": "sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage (third-person singular simple present sells one's birthright for a mess of pottage, present participle selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage, simple past and past participle sold one's birthright for a mess of pottage)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
    },
    {
      "word": "my kingdom for a horse"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1832, Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional Code",
          "text": "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 or supposed greatest happiness of the ruling few at the expense of the happiness of the many, would, supposing himself to become in consequence of the misrule, a sufferer to a greater amount than that of the benefit received by his vote, be an Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value, for something of very low, but immediate value."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "unfavorable",
          "unfavorable"
        ],
        [
          "exchange",
          "exchange"
        ],
        [
          "deferred",
          "deferred"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "immediate",
          "immediate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To make an unfavorable exchange, especially of something of great, but deferred value, for something of very low, but immediate value."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "myydä esikoisoikeutensa hernerokasta"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "egy tál lencséért eladja elsőszülöttségét"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "note": "no equivalent term in Polish",
      "sense": "Translations"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "but see sprzedawać za tanio"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "sprzedać za tanio"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "venderse por un plato de lentejas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage"
}