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a sob story

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a sob story
a sad story that someone tells you about themselves in order to make you feel sympathy for them She told me some sob story about not having enough money to go and see her father who was ill.
See cry heart out
See also: sob, story
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I, LIKE many readers of your newspaper, questioned why you thought we would be interested in your attempt at a sob story regarding the early years of the prolific criminal Ashley Blake (September 3-5).
Blake's sob story; YourSay by Birmingham Mail (England)
The man has approached strangers with a sob story about a dead relative.
'Story is a con' warning by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
But if a contestant's mother died of breast cancer when she was a little girl, that is hardly a sob story.
LET CHERYL HAVE A CRY by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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