If you describe someone’s attitude as sour grapes, you mean that they say something is worthless or undesirable because they want it themselves but cannot have it. These accusations have been going on for some time now, but it is just sour grapes. See full dictionary entry for grape. ‘sour grapes’

: disparagement of something that has proven unattainable his criticisms are just sour grapes.

The Fox and the Grapes is a fable by Aesop. It is about a fox who sees some grapes hanging high on a vine. He tries to reach the grapes, but he can’t. Since he can’t get them, he tells himself that the grapes are probably sour anyway.

Sour grapes much?” Sour grapes is the expression we use when someone puts something down in a negative way or makes it out to be unimportant solely because it is unattainable to them. After several failed attempts to reach the grapes, the fox realizes he’ll never get them, and walks away.

The short story is about a fox who sees a clump of grapes hanging from a tree and decides to eat them to quench his thirst. Eventually, the fox determines that the grapes must be sour and confidently, yet disappointedly, walks away. The moral of the story is that you often hate what you can’t have.

When they are bad, they are very bad, and when volatile acids get away from the winemaker they ruin a wine and can render it undrinkable.

Sour grapes is the action of making something seem less important after finding out they can’t have it. An example of sour grapes is a man saying he didn’t want to date a certain woman because she was dumb, after she decided to date someone else.

God used Jeremiah the prophet to warn of God’s judgment against the Israelites or Jewish people. That’s what the proverb of the sour grapes is referring to in Jeremiah 31:29. God’s judgment for the sins of the fathers could extend to the fourth generation.

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a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants. a possession entailing great expense out of proportion to its usefulness or value to the owner: When he bought the mansion he didn’t know it was going to be such a white elephant.

The English colloquialisms such as turn out to be a pig in a poke or buy a pig in a poke mean that something is sold or bought without the buyer knowing its true nature or value, especially when buying without inspecting the item beforehand.

DEFINITIONS1. (look down on someone/something) to think that you are better or more important than someone else, or to think that something is not good enough for you. She looks down on anyone who hasn’t had a university education. Synonyms and related words. To not value something or someone.

1. Once in a blue moon: This poetic phrase refers to something extremely rare in occurrence. A blue moon is the term commonly used for a second full moon that occasionally appears in a single month of our solar-based calendars.

The “blue moon” reference is applied to the third full moon in a season with four full moons, thus correcting the timing of the last month of a season that would have otherwise been expected too early.

Blue moons are relatively rare as well, occurring on average just once every 2.5 years or so.

synonyms for once in a blue moon

1. every now and then.
2. infrequently.
3. intermittently.
4. occasionally.
5. periodically.
6. sporadically.
7. at times.
8. from time to time.

Synonyms for out of the blue in English unexpectedly; blunt; suddenly; sudden; all of a sudden; out of the blue; abrupt; all at once; at once; brusque; quick; swift; rapid; speedy; fast. unforeseen; out of the blue; unanticipated; unlooked-for.

Promise (somebody) the moon In other words, to over promise what you can do. ‘She promised them the moon but did not deliver on any of the deadlines. ‘ ‘He promised her the moon when they got married.