说葡萄酸
shuō​pú​tao​suān

sour grapes

  • created sense approved 说葡萄酸/說葡萄酸 · shuō​pú​tao​suān · sour grapes — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    说葡萄酸 / 說葡萄酸

    shuō​pú​tao​suān

    sour grapes

    (set expression) to say that something is not worth having because you cannot get it yourself; based on the Aesop's fable of the fox and the grapes.

    说 (literal) → 说/說 · shuō · to say 葡萄 (literal) → 葡萄 · pú​tao · grape 酸 (literal) → 酸 · suān · sour

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense