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Disparaging what one cannot obtain, as in The losers' scorn for the award is pure sour grapes. This expression alludes to the Greek writer Aesop's famous fable about a fox that cannot reach some grapes on a high vine and announces that they are sour. ... Where does the expression sour grapes come from?
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Sour grapes - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... In the fable The Fox and the Grapes, which is attributed to the ancient Greek writer Aesop, the fox isn't able to reach the grapes and declares them to be sour - "the grapes are probably sour anyway!".
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but they had never heard of Aesop or his fable about a fox, so when they used the expression it meant something else entirely. We heard the source of what they meant when they used the term in the proverb that appears in today’s Old Testament lesson. It goes like this: “The fathers eat sour grapes,
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On the Internet, nobody believes you're a god ... "Come to think of it, maybe that’s why it’s hard to detect much in the way of palpable feeling in Carey’s music. Her singing voice wavers up and down through the octaves, like someone slowly tuning a shortwave radio in search of an authentic emotion.
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As a great American once said, this is sour grapes. The fact that Congressman Barton has to shop this asinine proposal around to find ... calling it the "national championship game" is just an expression of opinion, ... I think it is unfortunate that, despite playoffs being supported overwhelmingly by the fans, it has come to this.
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Sour grapes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sour grapes is an expression originating from the Aesop Fable The Fox and the Grapes. It always refers to an unattainable goal and human reaction to it. It can mean to deny desire for the unattainabl...
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The Fox and the Grapes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I did not intentionally imply that AMD would come out on top if the specs were standardized. "So there are two TDPs... or, at least, there used to be, six years ago. Anyway, AMD's claim is that its 125 watt number represents the FX-62's TDPmax, and Intel's 75 watt number represents Core 2 Extreme's TDPtyp.
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