laugh away

I laughed away whatever fear I was carrying and told her I would be back.

The Hollywood moguls laughed away his invitations to appear before the committee.

With song lyrics like, “Let’s have a passive-aggressive Christmas, because we’re all stuck here till we’re free,” it’s sure to help us all laugh away some of the challenges going into this season.

From Frank Churchill’s face, where he thought he saw confusion suppressed or laughed away, he had involuntarily turned to hers; but she was indeed behind, and too busy with her shawl.

Mr Johnson’s comments about a devolution disaster cannot be laughed away as an idiosyncratic Johnsonian accident.