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Grapes can be used to make wine. Sour grapes, though, do not sound so tasty.

Sour Grapes 酸葡萄心理

Anna: Did your buddy Craig ask my friend Morgan out for a second date yet?

Jonathan: Well, he did... and she turned him down. But Craig told me he wasn’t that interested in her anyway.

Anna: Sounds like sour grapes to me.

Jonathan: You are probably right.

This phrase comes from the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop. A fox tries to eat some grapes from a vine. But they are too high for the fox to reach. So the fox claims the grapes are probably sour anyway. When someone has a case of “sour grapes”, they criticize something desirable that they know they cannot have. Just like Craig did after Morgan turned him down.

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