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Laugh away   /læf əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Laugh away

verb
1.
Deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it.  Synonym: laugh off.





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"Laugh away" Quotes from Famous Books



... story with which Lord Lyttelton startled his guests on the morning of 24th November 1779. In vain they tried to cheer him, and to laugh away his fears. They could make no impression on the despondency that had settled on him; they could not shake the conviction that he was a doomed man. "You will see," was all the answer he would vouchsafe, "I shall die at ...
— Love Romances of the Aristocracy • Thornton Hall
... I tried to laugh away her doubts, though whenever I did so I seemed to hear Bastin's slow voice remarking casually that she might die, as he might have commented on the quality of the claret. At last, however, I grew terrified and asked her ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard


Words linked to "Laugh away" :   brush off, push aside, dismiss, brush aside, discount, ignore, disregard, laugh off


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