词汇 | jam tomorrow |
释义 | jam tomorrowjam tomorrow British EnglishBrE informalPROMISE good things someone promises you, which never happen 空头许诺,许而不予的好东西 There is an element of ‘jam tomorrow’ about some of the government’s policies. 政府的有些政策有一点空头支票的味道。 Examples from the Corpus jam tomorrow• If not culture jam today, then certainly culture jam tomorrow.• Will it really be no jams tomorrow?• Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave, new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft.• Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow but never jam today. → jam tomorrow at jam1(2) |
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