Sour Grapes 1100 Words
Sour Grapes 1100 Words
If you describe someone’s attitude as sour grapes, you mean that they are angry because they have not got or achieved something that they wanted, the scornful denial that something is attractive or desirable because it is unobtainable, affected scorn, resentment, jealousy, bitterness, ill feeling, envy, ill will:
I don’t think it’s such a great job – and that’s not just sour grapes because I didn’t get it.
French: justification
Farsi: دلیل تراشی