| 单词 | sour grapes |
| 释义 | sour grapesSEE SYNONYMS FOR sour grapes ON THESAURUS.COM plural nounpretended disdain for something one does not or cannot have: She said that she and her husband didn't want to join the club anyway, but it was clearly sour grapes. Origin of sour grapesFirst recorded in 1750–60; in allusion to Aesop's fable concerning the fox who, in an effort to save face, dismissed as sour those grapes he could not reach Words nearby sour grapessour cream, sourdine, sour dock, sourdough, sour gourd, sour grapes, sour gum, sour mash, sour-milk cheese, sour on, sourpuss Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for sour grapessour grapes noun(functioning as singular) the attitude of affecting to despise something because one cannot or does not have it oneself Word Origin for sour grapesfrom a fable by Aesop Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with sour grapessour grapes Disparaging what one cannot obtain, as in The losers' scorn for the award is pure sour grapes. This expression alludes to the Greek writer Aesop's famous fable about a fox that cannot reach some grapes on a high vine and announces that they are sour. In English the fable was first recorded in William Caxton's 1484 translation, “The fox said these raisins be sour.” The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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