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sob story
noun as in hard luck story
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What journalists call a 'sob story,' or is it meant to be humorous?
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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.
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As I said I didn't start out to tell a sob story, but in this business we see quite a few cases like that.
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Something about the case caught a tabloid's attention and it was played up as a human interest sob story.
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