📚 Jam tomorrow, phrase. ❓ Definition (British): A pleasant thing which is often promised but rarely materializes. ❗️ Examples: 1. A promise of jam tomorrow wasn't enough to satisfy them. 2. Policy holders want cash today, not the promise of jam tomorrow, and if people don't appreciate that then they are out of touch. 3. He should realise that promises of jam tomorrow are not helping shopkeepers in his area to swallow difficulties forced on them by the loss of parking spaces. 4. Unfortunately, in the case of human and civil rights, promises of jam tomorrow are simply not good enough. 5. We have been promised jam tomorrow but we have never got it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic