laugh down
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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He added: "It's such a good laugh down here, with good people. They all look after each other."
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
“I’ve had a few whoppers of experiences recently,” Pugh says, breaking into a throaty laugh down the phone.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2017
I tried to squeeze the rest of my laugh down.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Anne, not recognising the utterance of his helpless humanity, put that laugh down to the account of the devil that had insulted her.
From The Helpmate by May Sinclair
De doctor told him to kip up his sperits, beein' 'twas onny a fit he had had from bein' a most smothered wud de handful of strah and kippin his laugh down.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
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