| Subject | English | Russian |
| idiom. | be the butt of a joke | быть объектом насмешек ("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) |
| idiom. | be the butt of a joke | быть объектом насмешек (из англоязычной статьи в Вики inyazserg) |
| gen. | be the butt of someone's jokes | быть объектом насмешек (As a politician, he had better get used to being the butt of everyone's jokes vogeler) |
| amer. | butt of a joke | предмет насмешек (the reason for or aim of a joke, especially when it is a person Taras) |
| amer. | butt of a joke | объект насмешек (Taras) |
| amer. | butt of a joke | мишень для юмора (a person who is the target of jokers is the butt of their humor Val_Ships) |
| amer. | butt of a joke | объект для шуток (the one who is the target of the joke, at whose expense it is made Val_Ships) |
| Игорь Миг | butt of a joke | предмет осмеяния |
| Игорь Миг | butt of a joke | объект осмеяния |
| amer. | butt of a joke | объект для насмешек (same as "laughing-stock" Val_Ships) |
| amer. | butt of a joke | объект розыгрыша (but she didn't like to be the butt of a joke Val_Ships) |
| amer. | butt of a joke | посмешище (Poor Fred was the butt of every joke told that evening Taras) |
| gen. | butt of jokes | предмет насмешек (rechnik) |
| gen. | the butt of a joke | объект насмешек (As a politician, he had better get used to being the butt of everyone's jokes vogeler) |
| gen. | the butt of jokes | мишень для насмешек (triumfov) |
| gen. | the butt of someone's jokes | быть объектом насмешек (As a politician, he had better get used to being the butt of everyone's jokes vogeler) |
| idiom. | the butt of the joke | "козёл отпущения" (seniyakseniya) |
| gen. | the butt of the joke | 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) |
| gen. | the butt of the joke | 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) |
| gen. | the butt of the joke | 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) |
| gen. | the butt of the joke | 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) |
| gen. | the butt of the joke | 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) |
