Sour grapes
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Sour grapes may refer to:
Rhetorics
- Making a false pretense to form a rationalization, i.e., not to care for something one wants, but does not or cannot have (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" (Leatherface song), a song by English punk band Leatherface (band)
- "Sour Grapes" (Puscifer song), 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!
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