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What does to cry sour grapes mean?

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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."

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