sob story 
noun informal
A story or explanation intended to make someone feel sympathy for the person relating it: Emma fell for every sob story she was told...
- I'm not pleading for sympathy or giving you a sob story, that's not my style, but it is really, really getting to me.
- As careful reporters and producers demonstrated over and over again, a story that makes you cry need not be a sob story, and should not be.
- He hands over his expense money in an airport when he falls for a sob story from a woman.
- tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone)
- tear someone/thing apart
- tear someone/thing down
- tear someone/thing to shreds
- tear-stained
- teary
- Teasdale, Sara
- tease
- teasel
- teaser
- tea set
- tea shop
- teasingly
- Teasmade
- teaspoon
- teaspoonful
- tea strainer
- teat
- teatime
- tea towel
- tea tray
- tea tree
- tea-tree fence
- tea trolley
- tea wagon