Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- 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.
Wiktionary
- n. idiomatic A putting down or expression of disdain about something that one desires but cannot have.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to Æsop's fable of the fox and the grapes.
- adj. See under Grape.
WordNet 3.0
- n. disparagement of something that is unattainable
Etymologies
- From the Aesop's fable The Fox and the Grapes, in which a fox, unable to reach grapes he is seeking, decides that they must have been sour. (Wiktionary)
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sour grapes’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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RELI - biblical phrases
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Genes
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Grapes
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Fruit-related metaphors.
The list name is a tribute to gangerh's Numberie.pear shaped, upset the applecart, apple-pie order, apple-polisher, grapeshot, cut the melon, plum tired, through the grape..., nuttier than a pe..., apple-of-my-eye, just peachy, cracked the nut and 41 more...
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Sour List
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Light my word
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Avoid fruits and nuts, you are what y...
Words or short phrases with fruit/nut names in them.
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Strawberry Shortcake and Friends
raisin cane, sour grapes, peculiar purple p..., maple stirrup, coco nutwork, horseradish, tamale, flitter-bit, escargot, lucky bug, mr. sun, banana twirl and 21 more...
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Say it with food
Not that there is actually any food involved.
pickle in the middle, sour grapes, humble pie, egg on your face, smooth as butter, easy as pie, spit and vinegar
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Prolagus Unripe in the original version. See όμφακες εισίν. Mar 30, 2009