Prime stuff, a real treat, something delightful. Of course, the allusion is to jam given to children for a treat.
“There must have been a charming climate in Paradise, and [the] connubial bliss [there] … was real jam.”—Sam Slick: Human Nature.
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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.
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