When Radhika lost the coveted class leader post, she was heard telling everyone, “I don’t think that was such a great job anyway...”
Ah! A classic case of sour grapes , one might say!
When you describe someone’s behaviour or opinion as sour grapes , you mean that the person is angry because he or she has not got or achieved something that he or she wanted.
In a fable by Aesop, a hungry fox noticed a bunch of juicy grapes hanging from a vine. After several attempts to reach the grapes, the fox gave up and insisted that he didn’t want them anyway because they were probably sour .
When Harilal won a lottery, his neighbour Heeralal was heard shouting “ Winning all that money can cause a lot of problems. I am glad I didn’t win it.”
Aahhh… SOUR GRAPES !
