- - Tale intended to arouse pity
- - Pitiful tale told to arouse sympathy
- - Account intended to evoke sympathy
- - A play to one's emotions
- - Excuse meant to elicit sympathy
- - Tale to gain sympathy
- - Thus heartless boss, political type, makes attempt to arouse sympathy
- - Sorts boy out? Tell that to the judge!
- - Tale told to elicit tears
- - Excuse that's often exaggerated
- - It may elicit sympathy
- - Excuse designed to elicit sniffles
- - Lame excuse, perhaps
- - Excuse of a sort
- - Sympathy-arousing excuse
- - Long, drawn-out excuse
- - Many a lame excuse
- - Insincere excuse
- - Tale concocted to arouse sympathy
- - excuse meant to arouse sympathy
- - Emergency call Conservative bishop lodged that might end in tears
- - Tearful tale (2 wds.)
- - boss troubled by conservative's sad tale
- - Pitiful tale of son of a bitch and Southern politician
- - Tale of woe (2 wds.)
- - tragic tale
- - robots, say, at work ousting heart of plant? it may evince sympathy
- - Conservative opens Waterworks starting with a plea for sympathy
- - Tale lost on the heartless
- - Victim's tale?
- - Whiny explanation
- - Signal extreme distress about British Conservative's pitiful tale
- - Pitiful tale
- - Conservative has a good cry starting pathetic tale
- - 'Cue the violins!' elicitor
- - Whiny litany
- - Tale of woe from new boss over Conservative
- - Bid for sympathy
- - Empathy inducer
- - Downturn in account of old boy on board, Conservative
- - Call for help interrupted by British politician's tale of woe
- - Tearful tale
- - Boss organised Conservative bid for sympathy
- - Often-exaggerated tale
- - Bid for sympathy, maybe
- - Tale of woe
- - Tale about a real so-and-so?
- - Whiner's tale
- - Sympathy seeker's tale
- - Tale of personal woe
- - Tearjerker
- - Account by a sympathy seeker
- - One type of reportage.
- - a tearful relation
- - Blue yarn?
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