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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



... feed him at his meals. Her tawny hair made sunshine in the chamber, her cool hands, in their ministration, had the caress of breezes. He was getting to be an impatient invalid; he bore the confinement harder than he did the ache of knitting bones. Kate's part it was to laugh away these irritations, so that she always left ...
— The Readjustment • Will Irwin

... could see he was in love with the pale sister-in-law by the manner in which he scowled at her; but it is not every woman who can be subjugated by gloom and sullenness, though some of 'em like us tragical. My method has been to laugh away resistance, as my wife will acknowledge, who was the cruellest she I ever tackled, and had baffled all her other servants. Indeed she must have been in Butler's eye ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

... good-humouredly; "laugh away. I dare say I am a coward, but I don't believe everybody is brave. ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn

... varlet!—Laugh away! All the world's a holiday! Laugh away, and roar and shout Till thy hoarse tongue lolleth out! Bloat thy cheeks, and bulge thine eyes Unto bursting; pelt thy thighs With thy swollen palms, and roar As thou never hast before! Lustier! wilt thou! peal on peal! Stiflest? Squat and grind thy heel— ...
— Riley Songs of Home • James Whitcomb Riley

... the girl and kissing her burning forehead and trying to laugh away her fears, her delighted protectress undressed her, and did not leave her until she had seen her in bed and kissed her again. "And promise me, child," she said, "that you won't worry yourself tonight. Go to sleep, and you'll have time to ...
— King Midas • Upton Sinclair

... "Laugh away and welcome, boys," he remarked, grimly. "Feels better already, Thad, and if the stuff will only do the business I don't care what happens. Besides, the fellows must have their fun. But they wouldn't ...
— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter



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



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