“LAUGHING STOCK”

“LAUGHING STOCK”

“LAUGHING STOCK” (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3, scene 1) is traced by the OED to 1533, and is also used in Sir Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry (1581).

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