laughing stock

laughing stock

or

laughingstock

n

an object of humiliating ridicule: his mistakes have made him a laughing stock.

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Thesaurus

laughing stock

noun figure of fun, target, victim, butt, fair game, Aunt Sally (Brit.), everybody's fool His politics became the laughing stock of the financial community.

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Translations

Gespött

посмешище

laughing stock

n → Witzfigur f; his visionary ideas made him a laughing stock → mit seinen fantastischen or phantastischen Ideen machte er sich lächerlich or zum allgemeinen Gespött

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laughing stock

n → zimbello
to make a laughing stock of o.s. → rendersi ridicolo/a

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