laughing stock
NOUN
laughing stock (noun)
a person or thing subjected to general mockery or ridicule:
"I'd be the laughingstock of the school";·;"a baseball team that is the laughing stock of the major leagues"
Similar:
figure of fun
dupe
butt
fool
joke
standing joke
stooge
fair game
victim
Aunt Sally
noun
a game played in some parts of Britain in which players throw sticks or balls at a wooden dummy.
a dummy used in the game of Aunt Sally.
a person or thing that is subjected to much criticism, especially one set up as an easy target for it:
"today's landowner is everyone's Aunt Sally"
Similar:
victim
butt
scapegoat
dupe
recipient
focus
object
laughing stock
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