"I told them we'd be a laughing stock if we did this."

Honestly, we must be the laughing stock of the world.

He'd be a laughing stock if anybody ever saw them.

You've made a laughing stock of yourself with everybody on the mine.

When word does get out, he will be a laughing stock.

And that less than a generation after British industry was the laughing stock of the world.

Oh dear, this country must be the laughing stock of the world.

I do not intend to be made a laughing stock.

A club that had become a laughing stock was beginning to find its feet.

"I will be the laughing stock of the civilized world."

But now, for the first time in his life, he was an object of ridicule.

I've been here three weeks and already I'm an object of ridicule.

"I've been the object of ridicule for a long time," he says.

The Yes campaign's poster was a particularly easy object of ridicule.

Any son-in-law who had to live with his wife's parents was an object of ridicule.

This man is generally seen as an object of ridicule.

For all these reasons they frequently became objects of ridicule.

The name was changed in 1888, when the district's Congressman thought it an object of ridicule.

The House leaders' decision made their chamber the object of ridicule.

Yet these figures do not come across as objects of ridicule.