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
She said the leaked video was down to "sour grapes" and that "not everybody has the same sense of service and duty and responsibility".
From BBC • Oct. 29, 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
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
“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
