"Be the butt of the joke" nghĩa là gì?

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"Be the butt of the joke" = cái mông của trò đùa -> trở thành đối tượng của trò đùa, giễu cợt. 

Ví dụ 
They may also be supported by a dwarf (lùn, còi cọc) entertainer, a person whose career involves being the butt of the joke, a person who is always laughed at but never with. 

No, the problem was that he’s mocked (chế nhạo, nhạo báng) for it and made the butt of jokes about his weight far too many times in Endgame; one fat joke could have been an insensitive mistake (sai lầm vô cảm), but a host of them made for an awful pattern (hình mẫu kinh khủng). 

“My hair has been a running joke for a long time,” she told Arizona Mirror. Her long hair is often the butt of jokes among her legislative colleagues (đồng nghiệp lập pháp), so using her hair as a ploy (mánh khóe) for fundraising (gây quỹ) for LD24 schools seemed somewhat natural, Longdon said. 

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