a sob story

a sad story that someone tells you about themselves in order to make you feel sympathy for them She told me some sob story about not having enough money to go and see her father who was ill.

See cry heart out

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Samuilu	-	Old Church Slavic
Viktor	VIK-tawr (German), VEEK-tahr (Russian)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukraini
Leevi	LE:-vee	Finnish
BolesŁAw	baw-LE-swahf	Polish
Saulius	-	Lithuanian
Stoddard	['stɔdəd]