Sour grapes

Sour grapes may refer to:

Rhetorics

• Pretending that one doesn't want something, because one does not or cannot have it. (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!

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

See also

• Accismus
• Appeal to spite