Meaning:
Inserting humor into a serious situation in an attempt to soften the importance of it. Treating a serious situation in a trivial way.
Examples:
- I'm just trying to make light of a bad situation.
- The way people make light of their lives!
- You make light of your life!
- My husband tried to make light of it, but he insisted.
- I do not want to make light of your pain.
- But, it's not good to make light of someone's misfortune.
- You must not make light of the boy's strength.
- How dare you make light of that brutal...?
- Trying to make light of a dark situation.
- I wasn't trying to make light of what you went through.