A story or explanation intended to make someone feel sympathy for the person relating it.
〈非正式〉伤感故事（旨在引起人对陈述者同情的故事或阐述）
Emma fell for every sob story she was told
Example sentencesExamples
I stumbled on this article from CNN which details the sob story of a 15 year old boy found guilty of murder.
He had heard the entire sob story during a night with her.
She was quick to sympathize and usually only a sob story could sway her vote unless the teller seemed too pathetic to her.
I told her a sob story about a math assignment, a philosophy paper and computer science midterm in a way that I thought would assure a remedy for my chronic procrastination.
Then he goes into the sob story of not finding work.
The abuse ranges from violence in the home to financial abuse where a person is deliberately befriended and told a sob story so they leave cash in their will.
Since you're a soft touch for a sob story, I thought I'd pass this on.
I'm not pleading for sympathy or giving you a sob story, that's not my style, but it is really, really getting to me.
He had refused it, but she told him the same sob story she told me.
Female contestants vied to tell the weepiest sob story to win the bushel of prizes.
Giving a client a sob story to elicit money is usually a bad idea.
When she called Bell she could have pulled out the standard sob story, but instead she managed to convince the woman at accounts just how great these boots really were.
Best of all last night was that although Alicia gave a bit of a sob story about her upbringing she didn't focus on it as much as last week.
He hands over his expense money in an airport when he falls for a sob story from a woman.
You ask mid-sentence in your sob story about being used for nothing more than knowing your way around a computer.
As careful reporters and producers demonstrated over and over again, a story that makes you cry need not be a sob story, and should not be.
Another one I don't want to hear is the sob story about people working at the big financial firms who didn't get raises.
A conwoman who has been waking people in the middle of the night, spinning a sob story to trick them out of money has been foiled by an 80-year-old woman.
She made the cut not because she was a great singer but because she had a sob story.
‘It's not a sob story because I think all writers have a point where they burn out,’ says the 32-year-old.
Definition of sob story in US English:
sob story
nounˈsɑb ˌstɔriˈsäb ˌstôrē
informal
A story or explanation intended to make someone feel sympathy for the person relating it.
〈非正式〉伤感故事（旨在引起人对陈述者同情的故事或阐述）
Emma fell for every sob story she was told
Example sentencesExamples
He hands over his expense money in an airport when he falls for a sob story from a woman.
As careful reporters and producers demonstrated over and over again, a story that makes you cry need not be a sob story, and should not be.
A conwoman who has been waking people in the middle of the night, spinning a sob story to trick them out of money has been foiled by an 80-year-old woman.
He had heard the entire sob story during a night with her.
Best of all last night was that although Alicia gave a bit of a sob story about her upbringing she didn't focus on it as much as last week.
I'm not pleading for sympathy or giving you a sob story, that's not my style, but it is really, really getting to me.
He had refused it, but she told him the same sob story she told me.
Giving a client a sob story to elicit money is usually a bad idea.
The abuse ranges from violence in the home to financial abuse where a person is deliberately befriended and told a sob story so they leave cash in their will.
Another one I don't want to hear is the sob story about people working at the big financial firms who didn't get raises.
Female contestants vied to tell the weepiest sob story to win the bushel of prizes.
She made the cut not because she was a great singer but because she had a sob story.
‘It's not a sob story because I think all writers have a point where they burn out,’ says the 32-year-old.
When she called Bell she could have pulled out the standard sob story, but instead she managed to convince the woman at accounts just how great these boots really were.
I stumbled on this article from CNN which details the sob story of a 15 year old boy found guilty of murder.
I told her a sob story about a math assignment, a philosophy paper and computer science midterm in a way that I thought would assure a remedy for my chronic procrastination.
You ask mid-sentence in your sob story about being used for nothing more than knowing your way around a computer.
She was quick to sympathize and usually only a sob story could sway her vote unless the teller seemed too pathetic to her.
Then he goes into the sob story of not finding work.
Since you're a soft touch for a sob story, I thought I'd pass this on.