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Meanings of sour grape in English

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Usage of sour grape in English
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Why, you scattered them right and left like sour grape juice.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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Don't you think the sour grape text the truer, Mr.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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I do, however, have one sour grape to air.
The Irish Times
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The New Yorker, February 22, 1941 P. 69 Is this the shape Of the sour grape?
The new yorker
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I just hope that sour grape at the filling station gives me a good recommendation so I can get another job.
It's like this, cat
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But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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He put the complaint down to sour grapes by losing candidates.
Reuters
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Sour grapes though this may have been, Eddie abode by it.
Once there was a war
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No biggie, no, no, no, no, no hard feelings, no sour grapes whatsoever.
Love All The People
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Morris won, and two of the failed bidders have sour grapes.
Private Sector
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No sour grapes, but I would appreciate if you could set the record straight!
The Irish Times
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And then the Minister was accused of being motivated by " sour grapes".
The Irish Times
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Trump dismisses such assertions as sour grapes about his victory.
Reuters
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He denied his criticisms of the party were motivated by " sour grapes".
The Irish Times
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This is going to sound like a serious case of sour grapes, but humour me.
The South African
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