Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - laugh off
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Laugh off
laugh off
If you laugh off a difficult or serious situation, you try to suggest that it is amusing and unimportant, for example by making a joke about it. The couple laughed off rumours that their marriage was in trouble... Whilst I used to laugh it off, I’m now getting irritated by it. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
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transitive verb Date: 1676 to minimize by treating as amusingly or absurdly trivial ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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{v.} To dismiss with a laugh as not important or not serious; not take seriously. * /He had a bad fall while ice skating but he laughed it off./ * /You can't laugh off a ticket for speeding./ Compare: MAKE LIGHT OF. ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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