be (made) a laughingstock

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• made a laughingstock of him — made fun of him, mocked him …   English contemporary dictionary

• made a fool of himself — made himself out to be an idiot, made a laughingstock out of himself, made himself despised …   English contemporary dictionary

• Laughingstock — Laugh ing*stock , n. An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. [1913 Webster] When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• laughingstock — /laf ing stok , lah fing /, n. an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town. [1525 35; LAUGHING + STOCK] * * * …   Universalium

• was the laughingstock — was the cause of laughter, was abased, was made fun of, was mocked …   English contemporary dictionary

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