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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

What does this quote mean?

could you please tell what this quote means. "Sour grapes from a sore loser"
  

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Sour grapes is from an old fable about a hungry fox. The fox saw some bunches of grapes hanging high up on a vine. He was very hungry, but could not reach them.

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Sour grapes is from an old fable about a hungry fox. The fox saw some bunches of grapes hanging high up on a vine. He was very hungry, but could not reach them. So he said to himself, "Well, the grapes were probably sour and no good to eat anyway."

So someone who fails at a goal will say that it was not worth it.

A sore loser is someone who is very unhappy and upset when h