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Sour Grapes
Sour Grapes may refer to: * Sour grapes, an expression from "The Fox and the Grapes", one of Aesop's Fables * ''Sour Grapes'' (1998 film), a film by Larry David * ''Sour Grapes'' (2016 film), a film about Rudy Kurniawan * ''Sour Grapes'' (poetry collection), a book of poems by William Carlos Williams *''Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality'', a 1983 book by Jon Elster *"Sour Grapes", a song by Puscifer from ''"V" Is for Vagina'' *"Sour Grapes", a song by John Prine from ''Diamonds in the Rough'' *"Sour Grapes", a song by The Descendents from ''Enjoy!'' *"Sour Grapes", a song by Cass Elliot from '' Bubblegum, Lemonade, and... Something for Mama'' *"Sour Grapes", a song by Le Sserafim from the album ''Fearless'' *Sour Grapes, a ''Strawberry Shortcake'' character See also *Accismus *Appeal to spite An appeal to spite (Latin: ''argumentum ad odium'') is a form of argumentation which attempts to win favor by exploiting feelings of bitterness, spite, or schadenfre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fox And The Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's fables, numbered 15 in the Perry Index. The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot reach them. Rather than admit defeat, he states they are undesirable. The expression "sour grapes" originated from this fable. The fable The fable of The Fox and the Grapes is one of the few which feature only a single animal protagonist. There are several Greek versions as well as one in Latin by Phaedrus (IV.3) which is terse and to the point: In her version of La Fontaine's Fables, Marianne Moore underlines his ironic comment on the situation in a final pun, "Better, I think, than an embittered whine". Although the fable describes purely subjective behaviour, the English idiom "sour grapes", which derives from the story, is now often used also of envious disparagement of something to others. Similar expressions exist in other languages of Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
