Some say the committee has sold its birthright for a mess of pottage.

They do not want to be as Esau and sell their birthright for a bowl of stew.

I hope we're not going to sell our birthright just to raise money.

I don't want to sell my birthright for two hundred thousand dollars, or any amount of money.

The community boards shouldn't sell their birthright for a bowl of porridge.

Selling our birthright, that's what we're doing - for a mess of pottage!

Japan (not alone in this) sold its birthright for the sake of national glory.

I expect he found he'd sold his working-class birthright for a mess of Bloomsbury pottage.

We don't want someone who is going to sell our birthright for a mess of pottage .

Ladies and gentlemen, we will not sell Parliament's birthright for a mess of pottage.