laughing stock
laughing stock — noun
1. a person or thing that everyone makes fun of, usually after doing something fool
a person or thing that everyone makes fun of, usually after doing something foolish or failing badly in public.
After Benjamin tripped on stage and dropped the trophy, he became the school's laughing stock.
become the [group]'s laughing stock
Valentina's wild excuses made her the laughing stock of the whole office.
The mayor's silly speech turned the small town into a national laughing stock overnight.
Nobody wanted to be the laughing stock, so the students rehearsed the play for weeks.
When the new phone kept crashing, the company quickly became a laughing stock among reviewers.
- object of ridicule
more formal; stresses being mocked rather than the failure that caused it
- butt of the joke
informal; the target of a single joke, often one-off rather than a lasting reputation
- figure of fun
British and milder; someone people find amusing, not necessarily after a public failure
文法句型
become a laughing stock
make somebody a laughing stock
the laughing stock of [group]
用法筆記
Almost always singular and used with 'a' or 'the'. The person or thing being mocked is the subject, and the mocking group follows with 'of' (the laughing stock of the village).