Brewer's: Sour Grapes

Things despised because they are beyond our reach. Many men of low degree call titles and dignities “sour grapes;” and men of no parts turn up their noses at literary honours. The phrase is from Æsop's fable called The Fox and the Grapes.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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