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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | быть объектом насмешек | the butt of someone's jokes (As a politician, he had better get used to being the butt of everyone's jokes vogeler) |
| idiom. | быть объектом насмешек | be the butt of a joke (из англоязычной статьи в Вики inyazserg) |
| idiom. | быть объектом насмешек | be the butt of a joke ("Their choice of children's names was the butt of an award-winning joke by Canadian comedian Stewart Francis" (Wikipedia)  wikipedia.org, thefreedictionary.com inyazserg) |
| gen. | быть объектом насмешек | be the butt of someone's jokes (As a politician, he had better get used to being the butt of everyone's jokes vogeler) |
| gen. | быть объектом насмешек за старание | be laughed at for his pains (for being so foolish, for believing smth., etc., и т.д.) |