The idea met with such ridicule that it was dropped. 这个想法遭到那么多嘲笑，因此被放弃了。

object of ridicule (=someone or something that people make fun of) Her old-fashioned ideas risk making her an object of ridicule. 嘲弄的对象

hold sb/sth up to ridicule (=make them look silly in public) The government could be held up to ridicule if the project goes ahead unchanged. 嘲笑某人/某物