brush sb/sth aside
— phrasal verb with brush uk/brʌʃ/us/brʌʃ/verb
to refuse to consider something seriously because you feel that it is not important:
She brushed their objections aside, saying "Leave it to me."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Treating as unimportant
- blow
- blow sth/sb off
- denigrate
- deprecate
- derogate
- derogate from sth
- dismiss
- laugh
- play fast and loose with sth/sb idiom
- pour
- pour scorn on sb/sth idiom
- scorn
- scornful
- scruple
- shrug
- talk
- talk sth down
- wave
- write
- write sb/sth off
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