Examples of 'sour grapes' in a sentence
Meaning of "sour grapes"
The phrase 'sour grapes' is derived from an Aesop fable and is used to describe the attitude of someone who belittles or criticizes something they cannot have or achieve. It refers to a person's tendency to disparage or downplay something that is desirable but unattainable for them, often because of envy or disappointment
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- Grapes that have an acidic taste, usually because they are unripe.
- Things that somebody pretends to despise because they cannot obtain or have them.
- A putting down or expression of disdain about something that one desires but cannot have.
How to use "sour grapes" in a sentence
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Let us have no sour grapes over him.
The sour grapes is made very obvious.
A sweet soul adrift in a sea of sour grapes.
And no sour grapes here by the way.
Eric will have a pint of sour grapes.
A lot of sour grapes from pot smokers.
Looks and sounds like sour grapes to me.
Sour grapes from our competitors.
The negative reviews appear to be sour grapes.
Seems to me like sour grapes or jealousy or.
Go out in a massive bloodbath of sour grapes.
Sour grapes is your trouble.
This seems like sour grapes to us.
I knew there would be a certain amount of sour grapes.
Sour grapes are out of season.
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That sounds like sour grapes to me.
Sour grapes if you ask me.
That sounds like sour grapes.
The sour grapes will live on the web forever.
Luckily they were sour grapes.
The sour grapes people.
Because you reek of sour grapes.
No sour grapes now.
Should not be a case of sour grapes.
Not sour grapes.
Or maybe this is just sour grapes.
Sour grapes from the woman who did not get the cover.
Nothing good can come of these sour grapes.
All the rest are sour grapes from bad losers.
A lot of his commentary seems like sour grapes.
A sea of sour grapes.
I suspect they will view your claims as sour grapes.
Their grievances were not the sour grapes of defeated politicians.
Our complaint about this problem is not mere sour grapes.
Do not cry sour grapes.
Retrying them on the arson will just seem like sour grapes.
Probably sour grapes.
Any thing he says will sound like sour grapes.
And no sour grapes.
Like the fox that could not reach thought they are sour grapes.
This is not sour grapes.
Many American media smeared China with ulterior motives and the psychology of sour grapes.
It was just sour grapes.
Look, sour grapes is just not my kind of fruit.
That would just be sour grapes.
This is just purely sour grapes on the part of the Labor Party.
I think cynicism is sour grapes.
A case of sour grapes on the part of other?
Because you are sour grapes.
Sour grapes that we are dashing your hopes for an apocalypse?
