fat tax

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informal a tax levied in the form of higher duties or VAT on foods with a high fat content

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Words nearby fat tax

fatso, fat-soluble, fat-soluble vitamin, fatstock, fat-tailed sheep, fat tax, fatted calf, fatted calf, kill the, fatten, fat tide, fattish

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“One of the big misconceptions is that eating fat makes you fat, because it has more calories,” Asprey says.
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Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Then a fat, untidy old man appeared in the doorway of a cubicle within the shop, and Edwin Clayhanger blushed.
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He wished her mother had not been quite such an appalling person, fat and painted.
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It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
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He controlled himself betimes, bethinking him that, after all, there might be some reason in what this fat fellow said.
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