It comes from one of Aesop's fables, in which a fox tries again and again to jump high enough to reach grapes hanging high on a vine, and finally gives up, asserting that the grapes were probably sour anyway. The moral of the fable is "it is easy to despise what you cannot get."
As sour as the grapes
Sour Grapes - book - was created in 1921.
The duration of Sour Grapes - film - is 1.52 hours.
Sour Grapes - film - was created on 1998-04-17.
I assume you mean acid. If that is the case, lemons, oranges, pineapples, limes, sour apples, sour plums, sour grapes, and tangerines all have acid in them.
Sour grapes aren't ripe and haven't produced the sugar that makes them sweet yet. <><><> Also, wine grapes tend to be more sour and table grapes tend to be sweeter. Wine grapes aren't necessarily intended to be eaten and table grapes are.
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Sour Grapes - 1950 was released on: USA: 22 November 1950
It comes from a fable by Aesop. "Sour grapes" means that you want something, but you can't have it. So since you can't have it, you disdain it by saying something like "It was probably lousy, anyway".
Sour Grapes - 1950 is rated/received certificates of: Canada:G (Nova Scotia)
Grapes are acidic in nature. They are sour in taste.
Grapes are acidic in nature. They are sour in taste.