sour grapes
things people don't want because they cannot have them
TRANSLATION
sour grapes = die Trauben hängen zu hoch, (fig.) saure Trauben --- GOOGLE INDEX sour grapes: approximately 900,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
SOUR GRAPES in French wine battle.
(BBC News - headline)
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Critics said this sounded like SOUR GRAPES from a company with a low market share, weak revenues and unfair competition during its four years in the Chinese market.
(The Guardian Online)
(BBC News - headline)
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Critics said this sounded like SOUR GRAPES from a company with a low market share, weak revenues and unfair competition during its four years in the Chinese market.
(The Guardian Online)
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sour grapes
idiom
- sour grapes refers to things that people decide are not worth having only after they find they cannot have them
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The expression sour grapes stems from the story of "The Fox and the Grapes," one of Aesop's fables.
One hot summer’s day a fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of grapes just ripening on a vine which hung over a high branch.
"Just the things to quench my thirst," said the fox. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning around again with a one, two, three, he jumped up, but with no greater success.
Again and again he tried to reach the grapes, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."
The moral of the story: It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I didn't want that promotion anyway - and that's not just sour grapes."
idiom
- sour grapes refers to things that people decide are not worth having only after they find they cannot have them
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The expression sour grapes stems from the story of "The Fox and the Grapes," one of Aesop's fables.
One hot summer’s day a fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of grapes just ripening on a vine which hung over a high branch.
"Just the things to quench my thirst," said the fox. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning around again with a one, two, three, he jumped up, but with no greater success.
Again and again he tried to reach the grapes, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."
The moral of the story: It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I didn't want that promotion anyway - and that's not just sour grapes."
