jam tomorrow

Noun

idiomatic uncountable broadly

(idiomatic) Promised benefits that never arrive. / (idiomatic, economics, by extension) Availability of a resource at a future date.

Japanese Meaning

（比喩的に）決して実現しないと約束された利益、恩恵 / （比喩的に、経済学的に拡大解釈して）将来的に利用可能であると約束される資源（しかし実際には現れない）

What is this buttons?

Politicians keep promising jam tomorrow, but real reforms are needed now.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

政治家たちはいつも結局は手に入らない利益を約束するが、本当の改革が今こそ必要だ。

Details

Sense（1）

(idiomatic) Promised benefits that never arrive.

The “purposive” man ... does not love his cat, but his cat’s kittens; nor, in truth, the kittens, but only the kittens’ kittens, and so on forward forever to the end of cat-dom. For him jam is not jam unless it is a case of jam to-morrow and never jam to-day.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation