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Meaning of sob story | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A sad story, especially one intended to elicit sympathy.

derogatory, idiomatic

Equivalents

Deutsch Schmachtfetzen Schnulze
Suomi nyyhkytarina
Français histoire à faire pleurer dans les chaumières histoire larmoyante
日本語 お涙頂戴
Nederlands smartlap tranentrekker
Svenska snyftare snyfthistoria

Examples

“"Dis picture is called De Tale o' Two Cities, and it's de French revolution. 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."”
“Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

sob stuff soba sobador Sobal Sobalvarro sobat

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