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| Russian | English |
| неистощимый предмет для шуток | standing jest |
| постоянный предмет шуток | an inexhaustible subject of pleasantry |
| предмет шутки | a laughing stock |
| предмет шутки | the butt of the joke (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 | the butt of the joke (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) |
| это не предмет для шуток | it's no laughing matter |