WordNet
sob stuff
n. a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy [syn: sob story]
Usage examples of "sob stuff".
So we gave up - taking it Gray had been telling the tale - inventing this pal, trying to pass for a poor fool led on and done down so his counsel could pull sob stuff - that is what the judge thought.
An experienced counsel could make great play with the sob stuff--so young a girl, unfortunate upbringing--and she's beautiful, you know.
Lily Barton's counsel, grown fat and purple in the defence of many criminals, toiled stertorously with bombast and sob stuff, made her a much - enduring angel, Howard Neville a monster of vice, preying upon her, his murder no crime in the eye of justice, human or divine.