The sour grapes metaphor dates to Aesop, the Greek philosopher who lived between 620 to 564 BCE. His fable of the Fox and The Grapes tells the story of a fox who, on failing to jump high enough to ...

Aesop’s fable of the fox and the grapes is often misused, as the phrase “sour grapes” tends to refer simply to a bad loser. But it applies with deadly accuracy to the Conservative response ...