N-COUNT 笑柄;笑料 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.
真相一定不能传出去。万一传出去,她会成为笑柄。
...his policies became the laughing stock of the financial community. [+ of]