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
"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
She's doin' the sob act genuine and earnest.
From Torchy, Private Sec. by Lincoln, F. Foster
