| Secrets, lies, scandals, corruption, bribery and pretensions have made a laughing stock of Indian cricket. |
| There they are in not so resplendent a presence, reducing the town and townspeople to a laughing stock. |
| If we kept you on, the employee who had cost us so much, we would look like a laughing stock, and we'd also be easy prey for rival businesses. |
| As the favoured outer garment of trainspotters and computer geeks it was always going to be a laughing stock. |
| Kansas City was the American League's hinterlands, and the Mets were the National League's laughing stock. |
| Anyone who had spent a bomb on a just-for-the-occasion dress would have been the laughing stock at the gathering. |
