sour note

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Noun

sour note (plural sour notes)

  1. (idiomatic) A negative aspect to something mostly positive.
    • 2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC‎[1]:
      One sour note was the withdrawal of Rosicky, who suffered concussion after a heavy collision.
    • 2019, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Sex and the City and Us, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 94:
      They had a respectful interaction, not a sour note between them, but they never palled around outside of work.

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