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slough something off

1. Lit. to brush or rub something off. The snake sloughed its old skin off. It sloughed off its skin.

2. Fig. to ignore or disregard a negative remark or incident. I could see that the remark had hurt her feelings, but she just pretended to slough it off. Liz sloughed off the remark.

slough off something also slough something off

to ignore something or behave as if it was unimportant Politicians sloughed off public anger over the hospital cutbacks until several newspapers ran articles about it. He wrecked the car and then tried to slough it off like it was nothing.

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