If you tell a “sob story”, you are looking for sympathy and pity. For example, you may give your professor a sob story about why you didn’t finish a paper on time. Such a sob story might be: “My pet goldfish developed a severe case of ich and died; I was so devastated that I couldn’t finish my paper!”
If you tell a “sob story”, you are looking for sympathy and pity. For example, you may give your professor a sob story about why you didn’t finish a paper on time. Such a sob story might be: “My pet goldfish developed a severe case of ich and died; I was so devastated that I couldn’t finish my paper!”