sob act
Example Sentences
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“You are just a cheap little actress,” an observer writes, “putting on a sob act to land publicity to help sell tickets for your lecture bureau.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 16, 2016
She's doin' the sob act genuine and earnest.
From Torchy, Private Sec. by Lincoln, F. Foster
"If we was a pair of wild ducks, now," says I. At which she snickers kind of hysterical and—well, it's the first time I ever knew her to do the sob act.
From Wilt Thou Torchy by Ford, Sewell
