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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins twenty-eight, The word origin
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today is 'Sour Grapes. \" Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If
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you describe a person's thinking or attitude as sour
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grapes, you mean that they say a particular thing is of no value or not
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desirable because they actually want it but they know they cannot get it, or
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they cannot have it or they cannot win it. So basically if one's attitude is
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sour grapes they will criticize something as bad and pretend they don't
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want it. Like I didn't want it anyway. It stinks who wants that anyway. Forget it.
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It's a waste of time. But in reality they do want it. Okay. So let's take a look at the
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note here. Let's see what the origin of this actually does come from. Of course
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the origin of this phrase comes directly from one of Aesop's, Aesop's fables \"The
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Fox and the Grapes.' According to the story a very hungry fox saw some
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delicious ripe grapes. He tried many, many ways to get them. To
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reach and get them, but all his attempts were in vain. They were useless. He
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couldn't get it. Finally he gave up and started and started walking away ....so as
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he started walking away, he declared ah the grapes are sour and not ripe as
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I thought. Ah. .Who wanted them anyway ? So it's just as well I couldn't reach them.
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Ah. They are bad. So this is , this is where this comes from. Even though, we still
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use this phrase today, it comes from thousands of years ago. All the way from
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one of Aesop's fables. Okay. Let's just give one example. The way we
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might hear it today or use it today . It's an a/b part. A says James says that
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trophy was cheap-looking and ugly. So it is just as well he didn't win it.
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And B would say, Ah, don't listen to him. It's just sour grapes or maybe his
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attitude is just sour grapes. If he won it. he would be showing it off to
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everybody. He'd be really proud of it. So anyway. That's the way we use it. Anyway I
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hope you got it. I hope it's clear . Thank you for your time, Bye-bye.