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sour grapes
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criticising something only because you could not have it yourself
From Aesop's fable of the fox and the grapes. Used to say that someone's criticism is really disappointment or envy.
In context
He says the job wasn't worth having, but that's just sour grapes.
Their complaints about the winning team sound like sour grapes to me.
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- not someone's cup of teanot the kind of thing that someone likes or is interested in