The person who can't reach the grapes, says they are sour
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Idiomatic translations of "The person who can't ..."
Arabic (Egyptian)
عينه فيه و يقول أخييه
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Danish
de er sure, sagde ræven om rønnebærrene
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Greek
Όσα δεν φτάνει η αλεπού, τα κάνει κρεμαστάρια
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Hungarian
Savanyú a szölö
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Italian
Quando la volpe non arriva all'uva dice che è acerba
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Persian
گربه دستش به گوشت نمیرسه، میگه پیفپیف بو میده
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Russian
Зе́лен виноград
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Spanish
A cabo que ni quería
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Turkish
Kedi uzanamadığı ciğere mundar dermiş
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Meanings of "The person who can't ..."
English
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It means when a person who can't get what they want pretends that they didn't want it in the first place.
This comes from a fable in Aesop's stories, when a fox sees grape vines hanging from a ceiling. He tries and fails to get the grapes, so he walks off, saying that he didn't want the grapes anyway and that they were probably sour.
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