sour grapes English

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sour grapes

— noun disparagement of something that is unattainable

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unwilling to admit defeat

poor loser

make excuses

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  jealousy envy (n) covetousness resentment sour grapes

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That sour sense of rejection, felt by many confused youths, turns for some into a fierce desire for vengeance.

Predictably, Argentina's gamble turned sour.

If it does not, the current Sino-Russian entente cordiale is almost certain to sour.

England would be left to wave its flag of St. George over Wales and Northern Ireland, a rather sour prospect.

If matters turn out well, they look like statesmen and visionaries; if things go sour, it was their fault for not foreseeing the obvious and inevitable.

The world economy turned sour for emerging markets.

Even after recognition by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, relations remained sour.

The challenge for Putin is to make sure that his relations with the West do not sour.

It began well, when Spanish voters approved the draft European Union constitution, but it turned sour when French and Dutch voters spurned it soon after.

But Karzai's relationship with his sponsors has begun to sour, in part owing to charges that his government has failed to stop the resurgence of Afghanistan's huge opium trade.

Human trafficking rings tend to avoid Sweden, because business has gone sour.

Everything else that was agreed at the London summit turned sour.

It was only in 2002, after NATO began talks to admit Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, that relations began to sour.

Exporters of light sweet crude - such as Algeria, Angola, and Nigeria - lost nearly all of their market share in the US, while exporters of sour or heavier crude, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have lost little.

Defying such sour predictions, voters clearly felt that elections matter.

Finally, mutual funds are at risk as well, because their supposedly safe investments may sour and the insurance that backs them now appears shaky.

When Greece imploded, the investments turned sour, and the Cypriot banks that had engaged in this strategy became insolvent.

Once the four-star general was moved to the new position, his relationship with the president began to sour.

Her argument is, of course, a classic example of sour grapes; the entire point of a two-round voting system is to force parties and their supporters to seek a consensus and form partnerships.

But, one by one, most of the DPP's founding fathers all left the party, accusing Chen of corruption and autocratic behavior even within his own party - which Chen dismissed as sour grapes from people who wanted their share of the political spoils.