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laugh away

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laugh something away 
1. to spend an amount of time laughing. We laughed the hour away listening to the comedian. We laughed away the evening.
2. to get rid of something negative by laughing. Kelly knows how to laugh her problems away, and it cheers up the rest of us too. She laughed away her problems.
See also: away, laugh
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Bulan was about to laugh away any such fears when the gravity and importance of the possibility impressed him quite as fully as it had Virginia.
The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
You laugh; laugh away, gentlemen, but only answer me: have man's advantages been reckoned up with perfect certainty?
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
That will go a great way toward filling out the belt, so laugh away, Morgiana, and I'll go back to my work, or I never shall be done.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
 
 
 
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