laughing stock

柯林斯詞典

1. 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. 笑柄; 笑料
The truth must never get out. If it did she would be a laughing-stock. 真相一定不能傳出去。萬(wàn)一傳出去，她會(huì)成爲(wèi)笑柄。
...his policies became the laughing stock of the financial community. ...他的政策成了財(cái)經(jīng)界的笑柄。