单词 | laughing stock |
释义 | laughing stock also laughing-stock Word forms: laughing stocks countable noun If you say that a person or an organization has become a laughing stock, you mean that they are supposed to be important or serious but have been made to seem ridiculous. The truth must never get out. If it did she would be a laughing-stock. His policies became the laughing stock of the financial community. [+ of] Synonyms: figure of fun, target, victim, butt |
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