to make a laughing stock of oneself
I can't wear that! I'd be a laughing stock.
To make oneself a laughing stock in public
The Classic of the Great Wilderness is a laughing stock.
He always speaks in lay language and makes a laughing stock of himself before experts.
Now, thanks to you, I am the laughing stock of the entire kingdom.
You can make yourself a laughing stock by using idioms in a incorrect way.
If you do that, you will make yourself a laughing stock.
You're not coming out with me dressed like that; you'll make me a laughing stock with all the neighbours.
Qin Zi fish, because of stingy door, buying beads and returning beads, has become a laughing stock in Ningbo's mind.
I was diagnosed with a corneal abrasion, given antibiotic drops and an eye-patch, and became a laughing stock at medical school for the next week.
Su Dongpo's writing, as usual, draws attention. This thank-you list makes those "new entrants" become the laughing stock in the eyes of readers.
I confronted her that day and said, 'If you're only goanna make me a laughing stock, why don't you just die?'
In "A Dream of Red Mansions", Grandma Liu is a laughing stock in the eyes of many in the Grand Garden.
A decade later they were a global laughing stock, riddled with the bad debts that helped to cripple Japan's economy and run by managers famed as world-class procrastinators.
Time changes, old and new changes, rules change dramatically. Looking back, the past model of conformity often becomes a laughing stock, while the weirdness referred to by the ten hands is reasonable, shining with the glory of life.
Does the special situation of China force the government to run a Church which simply can no more be recognizable as Catholic? They are making themselves the laughing stock of the world!
