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pile on the agony

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pile on the agony

  (British & Australian informal)

to try to get sympathy from other people by making your problems seem worse than they really are (usually in continuous tenses) He was really piling on the agony, saying he was heart-broken and hadn't got anything left to live for.

See also: on, pile