| 释义 |
Idiom 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.
sob storyA sad story told in an attempt to generate sympathy for the storyteller. Don't come in tomorrow without your final project. I don't want to hear any sob stories about how you forgot it at home. a ˈsob story (informal, disapproving) a story that somebody tells you so that you will feel sorry for them, especially one that does not have that effect or is not true: Then she gave me another of her sob stories, this time about an argument with her boyfriend. |