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| lay on the sob stuff with a trowel (Anglophile); appeal to sympathy (4uzhoj); tell someone a sob story (The con woman told the victim a sob story asking for money Рина Грант) | |||
| pile on the agony | |||
| stir pity in (someone); trade on someone's sympathy; try to stir pity in (someone) | |||
| put on the agony; turn on the agony | |||