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figure of fun

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a figure of fun

someone who people laugh at because they seem silly or stupid. She's fed up with being treated as a figure of fun and insists that her ideas deserve serious attention.

See also: figure, fun

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If we lived in a braver world, one in which people were willing to stand up to other self-dramatizing people who long to see themselves as "victims," Professor Hopkins would have become, briefly, a figure of fun, and then been forgotten. Summers guilty of being interesting by Lewis, Michael / Los Angeles Business Journal She has been a figure of fun since ``Entertaining'' was published in 1982, so all the jokes are old. SEE MARTHA COOK, MAKE LOTS OF CASH by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) And then suddenly, without warning, he becomes a figure of fun on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Fighting Terrorism With Pork-Barrel Politics by FERGUSON, ANDREW / Los Angeles Business Journal More results

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If we lived in a braver world, one in which people were willing to stand up to other self-dramatizing people who long to see themselves as "victims," Professor Hopkins would have become, briefly, a figure of fun, and then been forgotten.

Summers guilty of being interesting by Lewis, Michael / Los Angeles Business Journal

She has been a figure of fun since ``Entertaining'' was published in 1982, so all the jokes are old.

SEE MARTHA COOK, MAKE LOTS OF CASH by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

And then suddenly, without warning, he becomes a figure of fun on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.

Fighting Terrorism With Pork-Barrel Politics by FERGUSON, ANDREW / Los Angeles Business Journal

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