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sour grapes

a scorning or belittling of something only because it cannot be had or done

Etymology: from Aesop's fable in which the fox, after futile efforts to reach some grapes, scorns them as being sour

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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