laughing stock
Noun
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Noun
laughing stock (plural laughing stocks)
- (idiomatic) An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; a butt of sport.
- circa 1598 William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, scene 1:
- Pray you let us not be
- laughing-stocks to other men's humours.
- 1856, Lord Macaulay, contribution to Encyclopedia Britannica on Oliver Goldsmith:
- When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughing-stock of his hearers.
- 2004 September 12, Judy Battista, "Pro Football: NFL Matchups, Week 1 ↗," New York Times (retrieved 19 April 2009):
- If anyone can restore dignity to a franchise that has been close to a laughing stock in the last few years, it's Gibbs.
- 2019 February 19, Annie Cohen, 'Yes, There’s Anti-Semitism In Labour. No, Those Politicians Didn’t Quit Over It. ↗', The Forward (retrieved 21 February 2019):
- The split was supposedly triggered by racism — specifically anti-Jewish racism. But on this front, the Independent Group have already become a laughingstock.
- circa 1598 William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, scene 1:
- See also Thesaurus:laughingstock
- butt of the joke
- French: risée, objet de moquerie
- German: Lachnummer; Witzfigur
- Italian: zimbello, oggetto di scherno
- Portuguese: ludíbrio
- Russian: посме́шище
- Spanish: hazmerreír
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