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sour grapes
noun as in affected scorn
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She said the leaked video was down to "sour grapes" and that "not everybody has the same sense of service and duty and responsibility".
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But it’s self-defeating for Democrats to dismiss her story as sour grapes.
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In a statement on Wednesday, Fox News said that the complaint is sour grapes from a network that’s failing to find an audience.
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On the other hand, it sounds like sour grapes when he says that he never had the opportunity to show that he was able to play.
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If there were any sour grapes over his ouster, he didn't let it show.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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