| 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) |
| 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 someone's jokes | быть объектом 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 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) |
| idiom. | the butt of the joke | "козёл отпущения" (seniyakseniya) |
| 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 | 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 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) |
