English Dictionary

jam tomorrow

名詞

慣用表現 不可算名詞 広義

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

日本語の意味

（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）

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

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。

意味（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.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, economics, by extension) Availability of a resource at a future date.

The consumption-possibilities curve illustrates the choice which must be made: more jam today means less jam tomorrow; less jam today means more jam tomorrow.