When someone exits a room in a melodramatic fashion, most specifically when they are overacting the part of “the poor victim” or making a tragedy of something trivial, you might quote Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing:
Alas, poor hurt fowl, now will he creep into
sedges.
(II.1.192-193)
Depending on your company, you may want to limit the size of the quote to “Alas, poor hurt fowl!” because then you won’t have to explain what sedges are.
Tags: Much Ado About Nothing
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