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
It’s starting to feel like Russia could win the gold... for sour grapes.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2024
Pizzolatto’s sour grapes look like the response of a man angry at seeing a job he created and thought was his and his alone be handed to someone else.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2024
“Now, Handel, I am quite free from the flavour of sour grapes, upon my soul and honour! Not being bound to her, can you not detach yourself from her?—I told you I should be disagreeable.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
