Although the fable describes purely subjective behaviour, the English idiom "sour grapes", which derives from the story, is now often used also of envious disparagement to others. Similar expressions exist in other languages of Europe and Asia,p. 17, 18. Peter Unseth, Daniel Kliemt, Laurel Morgan, Stephen Nelson, Elaine Marie Scherrer. Wellerism proverbs: Mapping their distribution. [GIALens 2017 Volume 11, No. 3. Web link].The Concise Dictionary or European Proverbs, London 1998, p.989, proverb 986 but in the Scandinavian equivalent the fox makes its comment about rowanberries since grapes are not common in northern latitudes.See the Wiktionary definition of the Swedish proverb and the YouTube animation of its Finnish equivalent: In Russian, in addition to the expression " Зелен виноград" ( Green are the grapes ), another line has become a proverb; "  Хоть видит око, да зуб неймет " (Although the eye sees, the tooth cannot get it).
Although the fable describes purely subjective behaviour, the English idiom "sour grapes", which derives from the story, is now often used also of envious disparagement to others. Similar expressions exist in other languages of Europe and Asia,p. 17, 18. Peter Unseth, Daniel Kliemt, Laurel Morgan, Stephen Nelson, Elaine Marie Scherrer. Wellerism proverbs: Mapping their distribution. [GIALens 2017 Volume 11, No. 3. Web link].The Concise Dictionary or European Proverbs, London 1998, p.989, proverb 986 but in the Scandinavian equivalent the fox makes its comment about rowanberries since grapes are not common in northern latitudes.See the Wiktionary definition of the Swedish proverb and the YouTube animation of its Finnish equivalent: In Russian, not one but two expressions derive from Ivan Krylov's translation of La Fontaine. While " Green are the grapes " (Зелен виноград) has become the response to disparagement,Academic.ru his earlier exposition, "Eye may see but tooth not taste" ( Хоть видит око, да зуб неймет ), is now proverbial.Academic.ru
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