单词 | peter panning |
释义 | Peter Panningn. Behaviour reminiscent or suggestive of Peter Pan; the action or fact of becoming juvenilized, or of refusing to grow up; entry into the world of children or of childish things.Also (in quot. 1974): the invention of fictitious children as a means of tax evasion.In quot. 1992 with allusion to the fact that Peter Pan was able to fly. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > income tax > inventing children in order to avoid Peter Panning1907 1907 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 29 Oct. 6 ‘It strikes me’, he observed, ‘that a president does not count for much when one goes a Peter Panning’. 1974 Daily Tel. 12 Mar. 3/2 So many people have invented fictitious children to evade income tax that Inland Revenue officials have introduced their own catch phrase for it ‘Peter Panning’. 1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Aug. 12cn 26/5 We are witness to the Peter Panning of an entire generation. 1992 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 14 June (Sports section) 7 c If a rogue wave hits and catches the trapezer off balance, he quickly becomes airborne, swinging like a marionette. Cat masters call it ‘Peter Panning’. 2002 Times (Nexis) 19 Feb. The reason for this desperate Peter Panning of the male of the species is largely commercial: there are more fortysomethings around who have not married, are divorced or who simply do not feel ashamed of spending money on themselves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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