sad tale

collocation in English

meaningsofsadandtale

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sad
adjective
uk
/sæd/us
/sæd/
unhappy ...
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tale
noun[C]
uk
/teɪl/us
/teɪl/
a story, especially one that might be invented or difficult ...
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(Definition ofsadandtalefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsad tale

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Here we have thesadtaleof theologians leaving the straight and narrow biblical path.
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All this is asadtaleof delay and utter illegality.
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It certainly is asadtaleand all of it is absolutely true.
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But in regard to this the commissioner for health has a verysadtaleto tell.
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That is thesadtaleof the public sector borrowing requirement.
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There is, indeed, asadtaleboth for new housing and for modernised homes.
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This is the point of thissadtale.
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It is asadtaleof the contrasts between our two cities.
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I am afraid that this is a rathersadtaleof miscalculation.
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However, there was a ray of sunshine in thissadtale.
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It has been asadtaleof delay and procrastination.
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They tell asadtaleof inadequate management, and many major areas of waste and inefficiency.
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This has been a sad,sadtaleof a lack of public accountability.
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The record of foreign private investment is asadtale.
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It is asadtalewhen the most star-crossed party in history has to initiate such a debate.
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Men were leaving the industry because of conditions in the mines, thesadtaleof industrial depression, the series of national strikes, and the like.
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The deficit also reveals anothersadtale.
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It is quite true, but it is asadtaleto tell of the increase of expenditure since my party came into power—two years of increase.
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Let me tell him thesadtalethat my farm is the last farm before the livestock rearing areas begin.
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This is yet another chapter in thesadtaleof disaster which has distressed us all so grievously in the course of the last few days.
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