sour grapes
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsourandgrape
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sour
adjective
uk/saʊər/us/saʊr/
having a sharp, sometimes unpleasant, taste or smell, like a lemon, and ...
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grape
noun
uk/ɡreɪp/us/ɡreɪp/
a small, round, purple or pale green fruit that you can eat or make ...
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(Definition ofsourandgrapefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The strong have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the weak are set on edge.
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The modest protest such practices draw from local, but uninvited architects is perceived as either sour grapes or petty provincialism.
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Does he agree that such behaviour is sour grapes on the part of disaffected fathers?
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But here the opposition is tinged with sour grapes.
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That will be the tenor of all that we hear during this debate from them because it is sour grapes on their part.
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Whether you like to call it sour grapes or not, some sort of consolation should be envisaged.
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It seems utterly wrong that because the fathers have eaten sour grapes the children's teeth should be set on edge.
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The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
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That looks very much like a bunch of sour grapes.
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To call the existing range of benefits a system which is illogical and often capricious smacks more of sour grapes than of common sense.
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No doubt some of the acid of his comments arose from eating sour grapes during the past few months.
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I believe that this is a matter of sour grapes.
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This is not a question of sour grapes by the council.
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Will he urge our right honourable friend to reject all the carping criticism and sour grapes, which were entirely predictable?
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All we have from it now are the sourest of sour grapes.
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So it comes that the father has eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge.
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To attack me on a question like this seems to me to be near sour grapes on their part.
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I am speaking today with no sense of bitterness, or personal betrayal, or sour grapes.
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