Laugh It Off : OK, this one might be universal rather than just Southern.

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Now I just kind of made it where, I kind of make a joke, I laugh it off, you know?

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My husband, Justin, and I tried to laugh it off as we fell madly in love with our Baby Gorbachev.

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Of course I'm not denying that there are people in Harare who still support the ruling party who totally believe that headline, but the majority of people would laugh it off as a desperate measure - trying to fill in a void.

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Many people will laugh this off, chalk it up to those crazy Scots, and move on.

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So it heads off embarrassment by inviting its audience to laugh along with it.

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However if liberals actually did laugh off his criticism because it came replete with copious references to science fiction and video games they were being unduly light hearted about important matters of philosophy and statecraft.

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It's still giving me the confidence to laugh off sneers about my middle-aged appearance, or - for that matter - to talk happily on the radio about my aging toenails.

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It wasn't the kind of embarrassment you can laugh off, as I could so easily when I was in high school show choir.

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For some people that helps them, it helps them to shrug off the thing, the character, as if it's an overcoat, and have a laugh and joke around, and that gives them a sense of ease when they put the coat back on again.

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