| 释义 |
> as lemmasthe grapes are sour 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.< |