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What are sour grapes?

What are sour grapes? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A putting down or expression of disdain about something that one desires but cannot have.
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I have on occasion taken to sporting a similar moustache and – Boy! – do people make sour grapes faces at me.
The ones who are honest have had to watch the cheats claiming medals and any complaint is made to look like sour grapes.
The views of the objectors are obviously tinged with disappointment but should not be dismissed as sour grapes.
The reality is she's articulate and she's composed, and apparently some people tonight have sour grapes.
Revolutionary works, when by chance they come t o hand, seem but the sour grapes of a few eccentrics.
However those behind the enterprise insist that it's just a case of sour grapes.

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