Related Clues:

• Melodramatic lament
• Pained expression recalled: 'I seem undone!'
• Cry of lament
• Quaint lament
• 'Nothing seems to go my way'
• Pity party plaint
• I'm done for! Strange wise men virtually pack nothing
• Wise move, perhaps, dropping very sorrowful expression
• I'm sore upset, see, I'm wretched!
• I'm poor person whose aims I meet regularly
• I'm dismayed — we open in summer in only half the places
• Alas and alack!
• "Alack!"
• Alas!
• "I have the worst luck!"