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View synonyms for laughing stock
laughing stock
noun
an object of humiliating ridicule
his mistakes have made him a laughing stock
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“You think about two years ago, three years ago, four years ago or one year ago, we were a laughing stock all over the world.”
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O'Connor had followed the Jets' sorry search for a successor to legendary quarterback Joe Namath, which had turned them into a laughing stock.
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"I would be a laughing stock," he says.
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Just ask the Post Office, which in 2001 wasted £2m to rebrand as Consignia, only to reverse course after the baffling name became a laughing stock.
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He was accused of calling a female officer a "Witzfigur", or laughing stock.
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