laugh something ↔ off

phrasal verbphr v SERIOUS/NOT JOKINGto pretend that something is less serious than it really is by laughing or joking about it 用笑摆脱；对…一笑了之

Knox laughed off rumors that he would be running for mayor.

诺克斯对自己要竞选市长的传言一笑了之。

Examples from the Corpus

laugh off• By this time Irene was emitting a steady gurgle of contentment, when she wasn't laughing her head off.• Louise: Ursula would have laughed her head off.• Joey stood in the door laughing his head off and Noreen peered over his shoulder, her hands over her mouth.• We laugh it off as a bunch of California New Age woo-woos playing with rocks.• She'd laughed her head off at his contribution to the couplet, and now she'd sent it in.• She had laughed it off, but I fancied she had found the situation embarrassing.• Old Warleigh would laugh his head off if I put reasons like that to him.• She laughed and rushed off, late, to her costume fitting.

→ laugh something ↔ off at laugh1(12)

单词	laugh something ↔ off
释义	laugh something ↔ off laugh something ↔ off phrasal verbphr v SERIOUS/NOT JOKINGto pretend that something is less serious than it really is by laughing or joking about it 用笑摆脱；对…一笑了之 Knox laughed off rumors that he would be running for mayor. 诺克斯对自己要竞选市长的传言一笑了之。 Examples from the Corpus laugh off• By this time Irene was emitting a steady gurgle of contentment, when she wasn't laughing her head off.• Louise: Ursula would have laughed her head off.• Joey stood in the door laughing his head off and Noreen peered over his shoulder, her hands over her mouth.• We laugh it off as a bunch of California New Age woo-woos playing with rocks.• She'd laughed her head off at his contribution to the couplet, and now she'd sent it in.• She had laughed it off, but I fancied she had found the situation embarrassing.• Old Warleigh would laugh his head off if I put reasons like that to him.• She laughed and rushed off, late, to her costume fitting. → laugh something ↔ off at laugh1(12)
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