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Idiom
To make light of something.
To treat something as if it were trivial or unimportant.
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So is making light of national treasures.
In public he is making light of the issue.
People complain that joking about serious subjects is "making light" of them.
No one, not even the oil industry's most fervent apologists, is making light of this accident.
Fascinatingly he is making light of it because he senses that we find it unusual - particularly as we are on our way to a radio interview - yet he is also happy for it to continue.
While Ennis-Hill is making light of the situation she finds herself in, it will be hugely frustrating for her at a time when she was hoping to step up her preparations for Moscow.
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What other kind of disorder (yup, the D in OCD stands for "disorder") is made light of like this?
The younger the child, the more overweight is made light of by mothers, believing that the child will inevitably grow and overweight will disappear [ 55].
"It's not that I'm making light of it.
"He's making light of gassed Syrian children," he says.
"You can't be making light of what's happening too often," he says.
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