laughing stock

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laughing stock

alentaminen, pienentäminen, supistaminen, vähennys, vähentäminen.

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laughing stock (englanti > suomi)

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laughing stock englanniksi

1. puhekieltä An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; a butt of sport.

2. (circa) w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, scene 1:

Pray you let us not be

laughing-stocks to other men's humours.

3. 1856, w:Lord Macaulay|Lord Macaulay, contribution to Encyclopedia Britannica on Oliver Goldsmith:

When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughing-stock of his hearers.

4. 2004 September 12, Judy Battista, "http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800EFDE1330F931A2575AC0A9629C8B63 Pro Football: NFL Matchups, Week 1," New York Times (retrieved 19 April 2009):

If anyone can restore dignity to a franchise that has been close to a laughing stock in the last few years, it's Gibbs.

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