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Here is the Chinese idiom 「付諸一笑」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Treat or answer with a smile. The metaphor is not worth paying attention to. Same as “just laugh it off”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fù zhū yī xiào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu6 jyu1 yat1 siu3

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