sore grapes (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Mon Sep 24 16:38:24 UTC 2007


Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

Over the weekend my wife and were discussing something, and didn't
agree.  She said "Don't get all sore grapes about it."  She immediately
recognized that she had misspoke, so I'm not sure this is a classical
eggcorn.  But "sore grapes" is easily found by Google, and many of the
references seem to be intentional.
Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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