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.

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

“There are plenty of movies that do one or the other — that make us laugh away our troubles or that make us face our troubles — but there aren’t very many that do both.”