sour grapes
Example Sentences
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To atone, Ana-Maria says, they must eat sour grapes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Was it sour grapes, then, when Jamie Dimon called out private-credit firms over the recent spate of bankruptcies hitting banks?
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
Their rage might come off as historical sour grapes, but the Mendez et al fiasco touches on an important point.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2024
She described her childhood within the island's forested expanse, making dirt-pies and chasing garter snakes next to "fragrant purple lilacs, sour grapes in vines strangling the trunks of tart green apple trees".
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2023
“Ha! Can you imagine the traffic on the interstate trying to get there?” says my mom, in a sour grapes kind of way.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
