Food idioms: understand figurative English in context
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Understand a food idiom from the whole situation, not from each word alone. The apple of someone's eye is a much-loved person, sour grapes describes bitter criticism after disappointment, and butter someone up means flatter someone to get a favor.
After losing the contract, Malik said the job was boring anyway. That sounds like sour grapes.