make a laughingstock of

Idioms  

1. Lay open to ridicule, as in They made a laughingstock of the chairman by inviting him to the wrong meeting-place, or She felt she was making a laughingstock of herself, always wearing the wrong clothes for the occasion. The noun laughingstock replaced the earlier mockingstock and sportingstock, now obsolete. The idiom was first recorded in 1667.

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make a laughingstock of

If he could get those stones, he’d not only have a handsome profit, he’d make a laughingstock of me—what he has sworn to do.

From The Black Star A Detective Story by Johnston McCulley

"Now, Rose, if you will just coach him a little in his small talk, he won't make a laughingstock of himself as he did the other night," added Steve.

From Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott