Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mess_of_pottage

1 sense of mess of pottage

Sense 1
mess of pottage -- (anything of trivial value; "Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage")
       => value, economic value -- (the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else; "he tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices")