sour grapes
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sour grapes
pl.n.
Denial of the desirability of something after one has found out that it cannot be reached or acquired: The losers' scorn for the award is pure sour grapes.
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sour grapes
n
(functioning as singular) the attitude of affecting to despise something because one cannot or does not have it oneself
[from a fable by Aesop]
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sour′ grapes′
n.
pretended disdain for something one does not or cannot have.
[1750–60; in allusion to Aesop's fable concerning the fox who dismissed as sour those grapes he could not reach]
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Translations
kyselé hrozny
pihlajanmarja
savanyú a szõlõ
vera súr yfir e-u; öfund
erişemediği üzüme koruk deme
grape
(greip) noun a green or black smooth-skinned eatable berry from which wine is made.
ˈgrapevine noun1. an informal means of passing news from person to person. I hear through the grapevine that he is leaving.
2. a vine.
sour grapes saying or pretending that something is not worth having because one cannot obtain it.
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