From the iconic story of the boy who cried wolf to the cunning fox and the sour grapes, these classic fables have become the basis for many common English idioms. Here are five useful idiomatic ...

Illustrating the origin of the term 'sour grapes', (post-Aesop, that is), Crow gets Fox to trade him his picnic lunch for some grapes high on a vine. After many difficulties, the fox manages to ...

Even though the fox can normally get what it wants, on this occasion the grapes remain out of its reach. So, it pretends that it didn’t want them anyway, claiming that they would be sour.