Sympathy Circle

A group of people who are reeled into a over-dramatisation or fabrication of an event, told by a person who wants attention and/or others to feel sorry for them

Jackie's over-dramatisation of a relationship break-up had a 'sympathy circle' of people flocking around her

sympathy brake

When a driver applies his or her brakes for no other reason than they see someone else applying their brakes in another lane. The offender has no other reason to slow down other than they saw some red lights in their peripheral vision.

"This dude is making me late for work, he's put on the sympathy brake for every car that has slowed down around him."

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Sympathy Farmer

Snowflake generation illness to gain fame or attention.

Looks like genuine grief but without tears and always in public situations.

Performers include Andy Murray, the Brazilian National squad, cheating cricketers and Britain’s Got Talent panelists.

I’m not sure those tears are necessary for minor corrective surgery or whether Andy is a practicing Sympathy Farmer.

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Sympathy Pain

You physically feel pain in the same area when a person; describes what it feels like, talks about it excessively, tells you how they got the pain or just (in rare cases) are around you.

She keeps talking about her shattered knee cap and now my knee hurts, I must be having some kind of sympathy pain.

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sympathy vote

gaining support by appealing to people's love of a sob story. This could include running for public office after a recent personal or family tragedy, or turning up to an X-Factor audition in a wheelchair, hoping that doing so will gloss over any discernible lack of talent.

Dave: "Here Bob, this man on the X-Factor lost all his family in a plane crash and had is legs amputated after a tragic gardening accident."

Bob: "He may be crap, but he will win on the sympathy vote."

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boob sympathy

The faint,lingering of pain that a woman gets when another woman has boob trauma.

when jenny had her boob cut off during the war, her fellow soldier felt boob sympathy

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sympathy semi

Semi erect penis following sympathetic embrace with girlfriend.

Girl: It's so traumatic, mum selling my childhood home.

Boy: Don't worry darling

*embrace*

Girl: Oh my god! Have you got a boner?!

Boy: Darling, it's a sympathy semi!