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单词 to laugh that off
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to laugh that off
transitive. To dismiss or banish with laughter. In later use also ironic (and frequently in imperative) in to laugh that off.
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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
1676 T. Otway Don Carlos iii. 22 Nay think not by your smiles, and careless port, To laugh it off.
1715 J. Vanbrugh tr. F. C. Dancourt Country House i. i They all got drunk and lay in the Barn, and next Morning laugh'd it off for a Frolick.
1795 E. Fenwick Secresy II. xvi. 173 She laughed me off without a tittle of information.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xii. i. 376 Instead of laughing it off, I was fool enough to be angry.
1880 E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family I. ii. 37 Clarissa..laughed off the proposal as a joke.
1936 ‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death xii. 224 Why should he want them [sc. footprints] preserved if it wasn't he who originally made them?.. Laugh that one off!
1974 Times 15 Jan. 14/6 I claim to have a complete answer to the charge, so laugh that off, Sir Peter.
2002 Business 2.0 Oct. 98/1 Semel seemed taken aback for an instant, then laughed it off.
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