The sour grapes metaphor dates to Aesop, the Greek philosopher who lived between 620 to 564 BCE. His fable of the Fox and The Grapes tells the story of a fox who, on failing to jump high enough to ...

Even though the fox can normally get what it wants, on this occasion the grapes remain out of its reach. So, it pretends that it didn’t want them anyway, claiming that they would be sour.

The fables attributed to Aesop come from many sources ... of the well-known examples—“The Tortoise and the Hare,” “Sour Grapes,” “The Shepherd Who Cried Wolf”—that we have read ...

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