单词 | to laugh away |
释义 | > as lemmasto laugh away to laugh away 1. transitive. To dismiss or banish with laughter; to laugh off. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration > with laughter laugha1387 to laugh out1566 to laugh away1590 to laugh over1627 to laugh off1676 1590 Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie 28 At this iest, Signor Bartolo fell into such a laughing and all his guests with him, that hee laught away choller. 1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. iii. §v. 315 They could laugh away sorrow, and sing away cares, and drive away these Melancholy thoughts. 1692 W. Sherlock Serm. preached before Queen 18 Some Men may laugh away the Thoughts of Hell. 1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 239 And laughs the sense of misery far away. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. ii. 79 He..tried to laugh away her apprehensions. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. i. 97 I strove To laugh the thought away. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. xiv. 326 He tried to laugh away his own fears. And yet they ripened..into certainty. 1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence xxx. 296 If May had spoken out her grievances..he might have laughed them away. 1970 S. Kudo tr. Z. Shibayama Flower does not Talk 75 You may think that it is just a humorous cartoon with no special significance, and laugh it away. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 17 Nov. 68/4 Laugh away your stress. 2. transitive. To while away (time) with laughter. ΚΠ 1602 T. Lodge in tr. Josephus Wks. To Rdr. sig. ¶iijv Some..beget officious idlenes, laughing away houres, and nourish repent. 1653 N. Hookes Miscellanea Poetica in Amanda 140 Poor wits to help you laugh away the time. 1705 W. Coward Abramideis i. 32 The Sons of Men..Slumber in Peace, and laugh their Days away. 1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 452 He..talks and laughs away his vacant hours. 1822 A. M. Porter Roche-Blanche II. v. 177 They would innocently laugh away the time, which they had at first destined for serious discourse. 1875 Scribner's Monthly Aug. 499/1 They laughed away the half hours waiting for the pageant. 1908 A. Austin Sacred & Profane Love 55 Warrior grim and maiden gay Fought and laughed the hours away. 2003 P. van Wyk Burnham 160 Afterwards, they talked and laughed away the day. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vi. 106 Pompey doth this day laugh away his Fortune. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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