吃不到葡萄说葡萄酸
Traditional form:
吃不到葡萄說葡萄酸
Pinyin (reading):
chībùdàopútaoshuōpútaosuān
Definitions:
- sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop)
- lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
Characters:
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 到 - to go to, to arrive
- 葡 - grapes; Portugal, Portuguese
- 萄 - grapes
- 说 - to speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
- 葡 - grapes; Portugal, Portuguese
- 萄 - grapes
- 酸 - tart, sour; spoiled; acid
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