woe is me
Example Sentences
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The cashier has to know — if I get busted woe is me!
From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2019
Your book is not a "woe is me" story.
From Salon • May 25, 2019
“There are other people who’ve had better diagnoses than I have perhaps, but others far worse. I don’t get caught up in woe is me or why me.”
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2017
So for me to sit up here and complain and say woe is me?
From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2017
Oh! woe is me that I must say it--we deserve it, for they made her a bad return for all her love and fidelity.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
