Meaning of laughing stock | Babel Free

Definitions

An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; the butt of a joke.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Pray you let us not be laughing-stocks to other men's humours.”

“When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughing-stock of his hearers.”

“If anyone can restore dignity to a franchise that has been close to a laughing stock in the last few years, it's Gibbs.”

“The split was supposedly triggered by racism — specifically anti-Jewish racism. But on this front, the Independent Group have already become a laughingstock.”

“Toronto Transit Corporation had real issues. [...] My boss was removed in a coup three months after my arrival. I stood in and my learning curve went through the roof. Over five years, we went from being a laughing stock to winning awards.”

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