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давить на жалость

stresses
gen. cry poor mouth (Dude67); beg for sympathy (yahoo.com jodrey); cadge sympathy (Wakeful dormouse); play on someone's pity (Lifestruck)
busin. plead for sympathy (getyarn.io jodrey)
disappr. lay on the sob stuff with a trowel (igisheva); pile on the agony (igisheva)
inf. throw a pity party (Wakeful dormouse)
давить кому-либо на жалость
inf. work somebody for sympathy (He works his parents for sympathy – vocabulary.com PanKotskiy)