to be a laughing-stock

  • 1Laughing Stock — Студийный альбом Talk Tal …

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  • 2Laughing Stock (album) — Laughing Stock Studio album by Talk Talk Released 16 September 1991 …

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  • 3Laughing Stock — Studioalbum von Talk Talk Veröffentlichung 16. September 1991 Aufnahme 1990 91 Label …

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  • 4laughing stock — laughing stocks also laughing stock N COUNT 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.… …

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  • 5laughing-stock — also laughingstock; 1510s, formed by analogy with whipping stock whipping post, later also object of frequent whipping (but that word is not attested in writing in this sense until 1670s). See LAUGHING (Cf. laughing) + STOCK (Cf. stock) (n.2) …

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  • 6laughing stock — also laugh|ing|stock AmE [ˈla:fıŋstɔk US ˈlæfıŋsta:k] n someone who is a laughing stock has done something so silly that people have no respect for them ▪ The programme has made the U.S. a laughingstock …

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  • 7Laughing Stock (song) — Laughing Stock is a single by the American rock group Grandaddy released in 1998. Title inspired from album recorded by the band Talk Talk. Track listing # Laughing Stock # G.P.C. # 12 pak $5.99 …

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  • 8Laughing Stock — Album par Talk Talk Sortie 19 novembre 1991 Enregistrement septembre 1990 avril 1991 Durée 43:25 Genre post rock Producteur …

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  • 9laughing stock — If someone becomes a laughing stock they do something so stupid or wrong that no one can take them seriously and people scorn and laugh at them …

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  • 10laughing stock — [n] object of ridicule Aunt Sally, butt, dupe, fair game, fall guy*, fool, goat*, joke, laughingstock, stooge, target, victim; concept 412 …

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