sourgrapes
- Sore loser's attitude
- Sore loser's reaction
- Rationalizing from the inept
- Loser's whiny response
- Fox's conclusion, in an Aesop fable
- Disdain for the unattainable
- Sore loser's reaction, sometimes
- Sore loser's emotion
- Poor sportsmanship
- Poor loser's reaction
- Idiomatic negativity
- Fruit in an Aesop fable
- Face-saving disdain of something unattainable
- Disparagement of something one wants but cannot attain
- Bad loser's reaction
- Start of a quip
- Fruit dish that's not available ... though no one wanted it anyway?
- Ungraciousness in defeat
- Sore loser's reaction, maybe
- Reaction of a sore loser
- Negative reaction to failure
- Fox's feeling in an Aesop fable
- Reaction from a sore loser
- Pretended disdain for the unattainable
- "Foxy" comment on the unattainable
- Envious disparagement
- Have-not's scorn
- Unedifying attitude that may set teeth on edge