Usually means: Disparaging what you cannot have.
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  1. sour grapes: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sour grapes: Merriam-Webster
  3. sour grapes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sour grapes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sour grapes: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sour grapes: Vocabulary.com
  7. sour-grapes, sour grapes: Wordnik
  8. sour grapes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sour grapes: Wiktionary
  10. sour grapes: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sour grapes: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sour grapes: Dictionary.com
  13. Sour Grapes (documentary), Sour Grapes (film), Sour Grapes (poetry collection), Sour Grapes, Sour grapes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. sour grapes: Rhymezone
  15. Sour Grapes: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. sour grapes: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sour grapes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sour grapes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Sour grapes: Phrase Finder

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  1. sour grapes: Idioms

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  1. Sour Grapes: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sour grapes)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sour, grapes.
noun:  (idiomatic) Things that somebody pretends to despise because they cannot obtain or have them.
noun:  (idiomatic) A putting down or expression of disdain about something that one desires but cannot have.

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