单词 | sour grapes |
释义 | > as lemmassour grapes the grapes are sour (now usually sour grapes (see sour adj. and n.1 Compounds 1c)): said proverbially with allusion to Æsop's fable of ‘The Fox and the Grapes’, when a person is heard to disparage something which it is suspected he would be glad to possess if he could.extracted from grapen.1sour grapes sour grapes n. see grape n.1 1a. < as lemmas |
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