Denial of the desirability of something after one has found out that it cannot be reached or acquired: The losers' scorn for the award is pure sour grapes
grapes that are not yet ripe; pretense of disinterest or contempt toward an item that cannot be obtained (from Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Grapes")
sour grapes
الواصلة
Sour grapes
التركية النطق
saur greyps
النطق
/ˈsour ˈgrāps/ /ˈsaʊr ˈɡreɪps/
علم أصول الكلمات
() From the Aesop's fable The Fox and the Grapes, in which a fox, unable to reach grapes he is seeking, decides that they must have been sour.