Definition of "laugh off" [laugh off]

• To respond to a negative situation lightheartedly, as though it were a joke. (verb)

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• "At first Alexander tried to laugh off the prophesy, quoting a line from the Greek playwright Euripides that the best prophet is one who guesses well, but he was still a man of his times and superstitious enough to be cautious when it came even to questionable warnings from the gods."
• ""You take things in stride, you laugh off the insults, and you have a fuck-you attitude that I wish to hell I could emulate.""
• "I knew that I, like Jill in Blubber, was going to have to learn not to punch Shoshona but to laugh off her taunts."