sour grapes
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sour, grapes.
adj
Tasting of acidity.
Lemons have a sour taste.
All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.
Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour.
Tasting or smelling rancid.
His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him.
Hostile or unfriendly.
He gave me a sour look.
He was a scholar […] / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
sour land
a sour marsh
noun
The sensation of a sour taste.
A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
“You know I like them candies, especially the lemon sours.”
A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
For many Years of Sorrow can dispense; A Dram of Sweet is worth a Pound of Sour
verb
To make sour.
Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
To become sour.
So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
To become disenchanted.
We broke up after our relationship soured.
To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil