>"Sour grapes" is out of Aesop's fables. A fox(!) is trying to reach some grapes high up on a vine and when he can't he says the grapes were sour anyway. IOW it's a mean-spirited response when you don't get what you want.
This site is really good for my English. Thanks, to Dan Freeman too.
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