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Sour grapes may refer to:
Rhetorics
- Pretending that one doesn't want something, because one does not or cannot have it, also known as being a "Sour Grapes Mary". (The expression originated in "The Fox and the Grapes," one of Aesop's Fables)
- An allusion to the line in Jeremiah (31:29) and Ezekiel (18:2) (KJV): "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."
Music
- "Sour Grapes", a song by English punk band Leatherface
- "Sour Grapes", a song by Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan under the moniker Puscifer
- "Sour Grapes", a song by John Prine, from Diamonds in the Rough
- "Sour Grapes", a song by The Descendents, from the album Enjoy!
- "Sour Grapes", a song by John The Ghost (John O'Callaghan, front man of the alternative band, 'The Maine') From his side project, "Sincerely, John the Ghost" EP
- "Sour Grapes Mary", a song by Debbie and the Downers
Books
- Sour Grapes (book), a book of poems by William Carlos Williams
- Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality (Cambridge, 1983), a book by Jon Elster describing the phenomenon of adaptive preference formation
Other
- Sour Grapes, a character from the "Strawberry Shortcake" series
- Sour Grapes (film), a 1998 film written and directed by Larry David
- Sour Grapes (documentary), a 2016 film about Rudy Kurniawan who conned millionaires by selling them counterfeit wine.[1]
See also
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