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