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Can't reach the grapes? Good! They were sour.

• randycupertino 5y ago
  Huh... I wasn't sure the origins of that idiom and just googled it and that's exactly what it's from! > . The idiom sour grapes is taken from an Aesop Fable called The Fox and the Grapes. In the story, a bunch of grapes hangs from a vine, just out of the fox’ s reach. The fox tries all manner of maneuvers in order to obtain the grapes, but he fails. The fox walks away muttering, “I am sure they are sour.” The moral of the fable is: “It is easy to despise what you can not get.” Clever fox. I'm sure he found some nice chicken eggs to steal instead of those grapes anyway.