sob sister

1. A writer or journalist who keeps an advice column in a newspaper to answer readers' problems or quandaries. Collins worked as a sob sister for her local newspaper for several years before moving on to a permanent position with the New York Times.

2. A writer or journalist who focuses on or specializes in overly emotional, dramatic, or sentimental articles. They hired me as a sob sister to write about the plights of those in need of charity around the city.

3. A girl or woman who is prone to overly emotional pleas, complaints, or outbursts. It's a very difficult and narrow path to tread as a woman in the business world. If you show any emotional vulnerability, you are considered a sob sister, but if you allow nothing to show through, you're seen as some stuck-up ice queen—there's just very little in the way of a middle ground. There's this sob sister in my group who just drains all my energy with her constant complaining and whining.

sob sister

n. a weak woman who is prone to crying. I had another sob sister in the office today. Went through half a box of tissues.

sob sister

Someone devoted to charities, or (less charitably) a do-gooder. Originally a newspaper reporter or editor, invariably a woman, whose assignment was to produce sentimental stories and interviews that would appeal to female readers. By extension, the phrase came to mean any overly emotional person, whether male or female, especially one involved in charitable and public service efforts where sad tales of the recipients would tug on their heartstrings.

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释义	sob sister sob sister 1. A writer or journalist who keeps an advice column in a newspaper to answer readers' problems or quandaries. Collins worked as a sob sister for her local newspaper for several years before moving on to a permanent position with the New York Times. 2. A writer or journalist who focuses on or specializes in overly emotional, dramatic, or sentimental articles. They hired me as a sob sister to write about the plights of those in need of charity around the city. 3. A girl or woman who is prone to overly emotional pleas, complaints, or outbursts. It's a very difficult and narrow path to tread as a woman in the business world. If you show any emotional vulnerability, you are considered a sob sister, but if you allow nothing to show through, you're seen as some stuck-up ice queen—there's just very little in the way of a middle ground. There's this sob sister in my group who just drains all my energy with her constant complaining and whining. See also: sister, sob Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. sob sister n. a weak woman who is prone to crying. I had another sob sister in the office today. Went through half a box of tissues. See also: sister, sob McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions sob sister Someone devoted to charities, or (less charitably) a do-gooder. Originally a newspaper reporter or editor, invariably a woman, whose assignment was to produce sentimental stories and interviews that would appeal to female readers. By extension, the phrase came to mean any overly emotional person, whether male or female, especially one involved in charitable and public service efforts where sad tales of the recipients would tug on their heartstrings. See also: sister, sob Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price See also: keep on at (one) sob out sob your heart out sob (one's) heart out sob to sob to (one) bawl bawl (one's) eyes out References in periodicals archive Irwin Cobb of the New York Evening World, who also covered the trial and, reacting to the emotion involved in the reporting, coined the term "sob sister journalism." Sob sister journalism could call attention to the plight of women, and newspapers were aware of a greater market in an increase of women readers of the papers. Although initially targeted to women readers, sob sister journalism caught up men readers, as well. Obviously, the newspaper was the exclusive medium for stories on the Thaw trial, and sob sister journalism was the most popular journalistic writing style. Sob sister journalism YOUR Sandwiched between the launches of Sob Sisters and and The 19th Hole was Young, Gifted and Broke, of which Butt was the executive producer. PLAY IT AGAIN! CLASSIC TV & FILM; YOUNG, GIFTED AND BROKE (1989) Sob sisters: flatmates and now bestselling authors Michele and Jeannie share a beer and dismal date stories Careers: The rewards of failure; OK, so he didn't call. What are you gonna do? Write a bestseller about it, of course. Here, loser in love Jeannie Long tells how she turned her dating disasters into hard cash BUT also on account of them not being the usual singing doormats, that pack of pathetic sob sisters from the living Dolly Parton to the recently- dead Ruby Murray. IT'S NICE TO HAVE GIRLS WITH SPICE More recently, Prince William was taking some stick from the media over his flippant use of the air force and louche lifestyle - but all was forgiven by the sob sisters of Fleet Street when he took a leaf out of Liberace's book and told us how much he missed his mother. I bet Oedipus never took his mother out for a pub lunch... and he REALLY loved his mum! But don't expect the former Sunday Times editor to sashay down a staircase like one of TV's sob sisters. Switch on!; Neil's ready to go global The Cardiff kids' version of what would be described by the sob sisters as "the Love Story of the Century". King's secret was the worst-kept in history; Time to remember : Edward's love dominated the Echo's pages
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