When we don't achieve our goals, we may engage in face-saving efforts to dismiss their importance. Read more about the "sour ...

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.

From the iconic story of the boy who cried wolf to the cunning fox and the sour grapes, these classic fables have become the basis for many common English idioms. Here are five useful idiomatic ...

As President Biden bid farewell, his speech left many viewers puzzled, with some describing it as 'sour grapes' and others questioning his choice of words.

Tim Jones is the creator, artist and writer of the widely popular, self-syndicated comic strip; “SOUR GRAPES” about “Aesop”, a miserable-flying dog, living in a strange, problematic and troubled world ...

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