laugh off

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What I’ve learned about LAUGH OFF is the following: you laugh off something such as an injury, embarrassment or serious problem when you treat it as a joke; or to pretend that something which one is responsible has not happened or is not important, or something like that. “don’t worry, he said, trying to laugh off his resentment at the intrusion.” “Pete, i have something to tell you. Your incompetence has set the project back a month. now try laughing that off!”
by Jose/Kaewan (Bom Jesus da Lapa, Brazil)
Laugh off means that when facing problem such as booed by dissatisfied audience or feel embarrassing in front of people, you will solve it by laughing in order to distract people or let yourself feel better.
by maukee (Hong Kong, China)
Here it means to take the unpleasant things easy, not seriously, it expresses an attitude to deal with a certain stuation.
by Miao (Shanghai, China)
It means to ignore the feelings that hurt you or you don’t feel like to.
by Shuyu (Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.)
Be confident (of yourself).When you feel frustrated, and you laugh and smile with great confidence and say to yourself i can make it.
by conan (Beijing, China)
If someone laugh off a serious or unpleasant situation, he/she try to make a joke or laugh to show that situation is unimportant or amusing.
by Cecile (Taipei, R.O.C)
I guess it means not to accept or think about it seriously only roar with laughter.
by Momoko (Watsonville, USA)
it means you don’t have to take your loses too seriously and in spite of the difficulties you have to try and try
by paola (Pasto, Colombia)
pretending that something is lees serious than it really is by laughing or joking about it.
by anna (Taipei, Taiwan)
Laugh at difficulties; Have a laugh no matter the result or situation is.
by Sam (Hong Kong, China)
Don’t let them make you down. Never give up. You should try again and again. Timing or something else must be wrong. A chance will come someday.
by sayaka (Niigata, Japan)
ignore the dissappointing words others said to you, just struggle for your own goal
by Jane (Shanghai, China)
looks happy to accept the failure; just laugh aloud and forget any negative feelings; seems that a big laugh and sweep away the unhappiness
by janice (Hong Kong, China)
Ignore, make thing less important, laugh about something unpleasant
by Fabiana (São Paulo, Brazil)
to face your failure calmly, comfort yourself with laugh when you failed
by judy (Shenzhen, China)
To laugh off something means that you shrug off something by laughing.
by Sibylle (Zurich, Switzerland)
take it lightly, not to make an issue, keep aside, never mind
by JP (Bhilai, India)
Laugh off menas using casual mind to face the tough situation or problem.
by Rose (Taipei, Taiwan)
laugh off may mean when you feel frustrated or dissapointed, you let that emotion passed in a light way. You don’t get the aim, but it is ok, though not the best, because you have tried but you couldn’t figue out any solutions about it.
by sandy (Zhenjiang, China)
Show that one does not care about sth. eg: An actor has to learn to laugh off bad reviews.
by amy (China)
to get rid of (humiliation, embarrassment) by jest
by Ammar (Giza, Egypt)
To laugh off means to just take it easy. Not to take serioualy any rejections in the personal or professional world. To just chill out n let it fade away from the mind. Not to let it haunt u n get u worried rather to relax as rejections n failures are a part of life n one must be able to laugh them all off.
by Niha (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
i think it means that you ignore sth or sb, you dont take sb or sth into consideration, you just laugh it, it is not important for you.
by secil (Eskiflehir, Turkey)
to “laugh off” something means to ignore. It might be not good or it’s the obstacle on your way, so don’t care much about it, take it easy and overcome it.
by Pink (Hanoi, Vietnam)
“Laugh off” here means not to be beat down by the rejections, tough things… take care things or some situations with relax mood… for example, I laughed off the embarrassment that he caused to me on purpose.
by Sherry (ShenZhen, China)
disregard, not take it serious
by ivy (Shenzhen, China)
To pretend that something is less serious than it really is by laughing or joking about it.
by Kristina (Glendale, USA)
It means, to be positive about something that is not as you expected to be. Be cool in that kind of situations.
by lizbeth (Puebla, Mexico)
Laugh off means deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it.
by Seyyed Reza (Tehran, Iran)
“Laugh Off” means to dismiss as ridiculously or laughably trivial.
by Stephen (Tianjin, China)
not paying attention, forget about, by laughing passing things.
by Geni (Bloomington, U.S.A)
“laugh off” means “ignore”.
by babydino (HCM, VietNam)
TO IGNORE OR DISCARD
by LATHIKA (Bangalore, India)
dont think about it too much.
by siriporn (Bangkok, Thailand)
no need to think too much about it
by coral (Mudanjiang, China)
Don’t sink about it and just move on!
by linda (Saitama, Japan)
To pass over something with a smile on your lips
by Dragana (Arandjelovac, Serbia and Montenegro)
it’s means when the bad thing happen to you, and you’ll laugh off
by yi-ting (Taipei, Taiwan)
be frustrated about the unsuccessful things, but have to face the trouble with smile, cannot help!!
by xiang (Shanghai, China)
i think that it means by laughing and without considering, passing over an important thing
by mehdi (Mashhad, Iran)
laugh off means to get fun with different problems that you can find in the way of reaching your goals
by Claudia (Hualqui, Chile)
laugh at, look upon it or reject
by jeannett (Jinhua, China)
not serious
by suttiluk (California, USA)
I think the meaning is something like: “make fun of”, for example: “I took an interview for a new job today and I was laughed off”... it means I was so unqualified for the job that they laughed at me!
by Danilo (Guarulhos, Brazil)

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