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laughing stock

noun as in object of ridicule

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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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"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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