Hello everyone,
I haven't been here for a while, don't worry, I'll make up for it guys.
I'm gonna cover almost everything about the idiomsour grapes in this thread, its meaning, its usage and its origin so that you can memorize and remember it more
easily.
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¤¤ MEANING¤¤
- To act meanly after a disappointment.
- To act meanly when you find out that you can't do something.
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Here's two sentences where I used the idiom for a better understanding.
-Speaking a foreign language is sour grapes.
When one can't learn a foreign language.
His hatred for the winner is simply sour grapes -
When one can't win.
¤¤ ORIGIN¤¤
It goes back to ancient Greek, the idiom is token from a fable called The Fox and the Grapes and written by Aesop. There was a famished fox who saw some grapes hanging from a vine. She did all the tricks to reach the tree to get some of them but it was no use, so she declared them to be sour instead.
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I hope it's clear and concise.
See ya.
