Foolish bargain: good fish for worthless shell; shell with pearl in it for small fish.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Foolish bargains. · view the constellation · filed as J2081.2
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- general Chauvin II 83 No. 10, cf. II 89 No. 28.