A low-class beer-house. Probably the Tom and Jerry was a public-house sign when Pierce Egan’s Life in London was popular.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.