laugh off

• Verbe à particule signifiant qu’on traite quelque chose comme sans importance ou amusant, souvent pour ne pas le prendre au sérieux ou pour en minimiser l’impact.

A phrasal verb used to indicate dismissing or treating something as unimportant or amusing, often to avoid taking it seriously.

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Dismiss with humorinformal

   To treat something serious or embarrassing as a joke to avoid dealing with it.

   traiter par le ridicule

   • He tried to laugh off the criticism from his boss.
   • She laughed off the awkward comment at the party.
   • They laughed off the mistake and moved on.

   Synonymesbrush offshrug offtrivialize

   Antonymesacknowledgeaddressconfrontfaceheed

2. Ignore or minimizeinformal

   To pretend something is not important or serious by laughing.

   traiter par le mépris en riant

   • She laughed off the rumors about her promotion.
   • He laughed off the pain from the injury.
   • They laughed off the threat as a joke.

   Synonymesbelittlebrush offdismissdisregarddownplayminimizeplay downpooh-poohshrug off

   Antonymesacknowledgeaddressconfrontheed

Verbe de baselaugh