Betekenis van:
sour grapes
sour grapes
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- disparagement of something that is unattainable
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- These grapes taste sour.
- The grapes are sour.
- The grapes seem to be sour.
- Those grapes look sweet, but in fact they're sour.
- Criticisms that Japan's market is closed are just sour grapes.
- In Aesop's Fables is a story called "Sour Grapes".
- These grapes are so sour that I can't eat them.
- The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
- They shall no longer say: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’