sob story en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(derogatory, idiomatic) A sad story, especially one intended to elicit sympathy.
Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons.
2006, Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child, →ISBN, page 56:"Dis picture is called De Tale o' Two Cities, and it's de French revolution. It's about a feller vot takes anodder feller's place and gits his head cut off; and say, dere's a sob story in it vot's a vunder."
1922, Upton Sinclair, chapter 14, in They call Me Carpenter:
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Translations (12)
nl tranentrekker (sad story) · sv snyfthistoria (sad story) · fr histoire à faire pleurer dans les chaumières (sad story) · sv snyftare (sad story) · ja お涙頂戴 (sad story) · pl łzawa historyjka (sad story) · de Schmachtfetzen (sad story) · de Schnulze (sad story) · fr histoire larmoyante (sad story) · ro poveste lacrimogenă (sad story) · fi nyyhkytarina (sad story) · nl smartlap (sad story)