sour grapes

Etymology
From 's fable , in which a fox, unable to reach grapes it is seeking, convinces itself that they must have been unripe (therefore, sour) all along and so not worth trying for in the first place.

Noun

 * 1)  Grapes that have an acidic taste, usually because they are unripe.
 * 2)  Things that somebody pretends to despise because they cannot obtain or have them.
 * 3)  A putting down or expression of disdain about something that one desires but cannot have.
 * 1)  A putting down or expression of disdain about something that one desires but cannot have.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: حِصْرِم
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܒܣܪܐ
 * Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: בֻּסְרָא, בּוּסְרָא
 * Armenian: ,
 * Middle Armenian: ազոխ, ժուռ
 * Old Armenian: խակ խաղող, ազոխ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: agrassos
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: raa’at viinirypäleet
 * French:
 * Friulian:
 * German: saure Traube, unreife Traube, Herling
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὄμφᾰξ
 * Hebrew:, בוסר
 * Hindi: खट्टे अंगूर
 * Italian: uva acerba
 * Kazakh:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Laz: კოხა
 * Malayalam:
 * Old Church Slavonic: отрочьникъ
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: uvas verdes
 * Romanian: aguride, struguri acri, struguri verzi
 * Russian: ки́слый виногра́д
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: uvas verdes
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Venetian: agresta


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: sure rønnebær
 * Finnish: happamia, sanoi kettu pihlajanmarjoista
 * Georgian:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: खट्टे अंगूर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: þau eru súr, sagði refurinn
 * Irish: silíní searbha
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: кисело е грозјето
 * Polish: kwaśne winogrona
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: struguri acri
 * Russian: зе́лен виногра́д,, притво́рное равноду́шие
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: chùm nho còn xanh
 * Welsh: cig cas yw cig coch