This week’s theme
Fruits

This week’s words
apple knocker
banana oil
razz
sour grapes
peachy

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SOU-uhr graypz)

MEANING:

noun: Finding fault with or expressing disdain for something one cannot have.

ETYMOLOGY:

From the Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Grapes, in which a hungry fox tries to reach grapes hanging on a high vine and when unsuccessful, declares that the grapes are probably sour. Earliest documented use: 1760.

USAGE:

“Although everything about him was theoretically perfect, personally I hadn’t been particularly impressed. Okay, maybe it was sour grapes.”
Elizabeth Young; A Promising Man; William Morrow; 2002.

See more usage examples of sour grapes in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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