| Kansas City was the American League's hinterlands, and the Mets were the National League's laughing stock. |
| As the favoured outer garment of trainspotters and computer geeks it was always going to be a laughing stock. |
| The dream quickly turned into a nightmare as poor reliability on the track and fierce internal squabbling made the team a laughing stock. |
| Secrets, lies, scandals, corruption, bribery and pretensions have made a laughing stock of Indian cricket. |
| Her insufferable sense of entitlement has turned her into a laughing stock. |
| Anyone who had spent a bomb on a just-for-the-occasion dress would have been the laughing stock at the gathering. |
