| 单词 | granny tax | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasgranny tax   granny tax  n. colloquial any of various taxes which adversely affect pensioners or older people. ΚΠ 1986    Deb. House of Commons 		(Canada)	 4 Feb. 10458/1  				The exemption of 3 cents a litre [sc. of gasoline] will come off at the end of 1986 and another so-called granny tax of 1 cent a litre will be added..next year. 1993    Chicago Tribune 13 Apr.  i. 1/6  				The House GOP has proposed an alternative that would use surcharge money and cuts in social-service funding to kill the ‘granny tax’ on private-paying nursing-home residents. 2012    Guardian 22 Mar. 1/1  				Labour accused the chancellor of funding this giveaway through a ‘granny tax’, pointing out 4.4 million taxpaying pensioners would lose on average £84 a year as a result of the plan to freeze their personal allowances. < as lemmas | 
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