to laugh something off, to fend off something while laughing

dismiss with a joke, laugh something off

laugh a matter off

laughing in a pleasant way, some one's smile to be agreeable

humorously, as a joke, in jest

taunting or deriding in the guise of joking

to evade a promise or agreement

fleeting of time

be delivered from a calamity, the impossible become possible, Metaphorically: the time of trouble

time to pass off

the muscles of the navel to be pulled or ruptured

be passed off (as a fixed time or danger), be passed over (time or moment of death)

ridicule, mock, deride

to move, stir