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To make light of something.
To treat something as if it were trivial or unimportant.
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"So to speak," I said, with the valor of an ugly person trying to make light of everything so as to stay hid.
"We do make light of everything on the blog and it's very tongue in cheek," said Laney Crowell, 27, who parted ways with a corporate real estate investor last month after a tumultuous relationship.
In a witty Comme des Garçons show, Rei Kawakubo seemed to make light of everything, from the toy space helmets worn by the models to the cartoon drawings that appeared on the backs of coats.
Suicide memes toe the line between irony and insensitivity and make light of everything from minor anxiety to school shootings.
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"He made light of everything we asked for," Mr. Mazzaccaro said.
Indeed, it makes light of everything, including its own fundamental seriousness, which the artist bashfully dissembles as if it were a guilty secret.
Fonteyn made light of everything that went wrong, he observed, on a disastrous Greek cruise the two endured with friends in the 1930's.
Torre tried to make light of the situation, saying, "I think everything hurts when you pitch like that".
Leyland continued: "Actually, I don't want to make light of it, but it was kind of comical really, because Doug was right on with everything.
Never make light of it.
Make light of mockery.
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