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the butt of the jokestresses
gen. предмет шутки (If someone is "the butt of the joke," it means he/she is the object of the joke – the joke is about him/her. Bullfinch); тот, кого высмеивают (be the butt of sb's jokes: Harron and her co-writer, Guinevere Turner, knew that in order to translate Ellis's stomach-turning prose into something that audiences could watch without being sick into their popcorn, they had to emphasise that American Psycho was a comedy, and that Bateman himself was the butt of the joke vogeler); предмет шутки (be the butt of sb's jokes: Harron and her co-writer, Guinevere Turner, knew that in order to translate Ellis's stomach-turning prose into something that audiences could watch without being sick into their popcorn, they had to emphasise that American Psycho was a comedy, and that Bateman himself was the butt of the joke vogeler); предмет высмеивания (be the butt of sb's jokes: Harron and her co-writer, Guinevere Turner, knew that in order to translate Ellis's stomach-turning prose into something that audiences could watch without being sick into their popcorn, they had to emphasise that American Psycho was a comedy, and that Bateman himself was the butt of the joke vogeler); посмешище (be the butt of sb's jokes: Harron and her co-writer, Guinevere Turner, knew that in order to translate Ellis's stomach-turning prose into something that audiences could watch without being sick into their popcorn, they had to emphasise that American Psycho was a comedy, and that Bateman himself was the butt of the joke vogeler)
idiom. "козёл отпущения" (seniyakseniya)
the butt of the joke: 7 phrases in 2 subjects
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