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What (who) is sob story - definition
sob story
(sob stories)
You describe what someone tells you about their own or someone else's difficulties as a sob story when you think that they have told you about it in order to get your sympathy.
Any sob story moved Jarvis to generosity.
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sob story
¦ noun informal a story or account intended to arouse sympathy for the person relating it.
sob
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SOBs; S.O.B.; SOB (disambiguation); Sob; S. O. B.; SoB
¦ verb (sobs, sobbing, sobbed) cry making loud, convulsive gasps.
?say while sobbing.
¦ noun an act or sound of sobbing.
Derivatives
sobbing adjective
sobbingly adverb
Origin
ME: perh. of Du. or Low Ger. origin.
Examples of use of sob story
1. Let‘s treat this sob story with the sceptism it deserves.
2. "I haven‘t had a hard life really, there‘s no sob story.
3. "People think Rhydian is unemotional, because he hasn‘t broken down in tears and doesn‘t have a sob story," she says.
4. The nation has come a long way in the 35 years since a New Hampshire sob story ended Sen.
5. I don‘t want to grow up and drink and do drugs." This week‘s sob story came from singer Madonna Decena.