Sour grapes
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Sour grapes is an expression originating from the Aesop Fable The Fox and the Grapes. It always refers to an unattainable goal and human reaction to it. It can mean to deny desire for the unattainable item. More often, it refers to the nature of humans to rationalize why they wouldn't want it anyway. The phrase has come to be synonymous with bitterness in most modern contexts.
Sour grapes may also refer to:
[edit] Music
- "Sour Grapes" (Leatherface song), a song by English punk band Leatherface
- "Sour Grapes" (Puscifer song), a song by Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan under the moniker Puscifer
- "Sour Grapes", a song by John Prine, from "Diamonds in the Rough" (album)
[edit] Books
- Sour Grapes (book), a book of poems by William Carlos Williams
- Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality (Cambridge, 1983), a book by Jon Elster describing the phenomenon of adaptive preference formation
[edit] Other
- Sour Grapes, a character from the "Strawberry Shortcake" series
- Sour Grapes (film), a 1998 film written and directed by Larry David
- The line in Jeremiah (31:29) and Ezekiel (18:2) (KJV): "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."
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