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词组 money for jam (or old rope)
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money for jam (or old rope)

1 money earned for little or no effort.

2 an easy task. British informal

☞ These expressions, which date back to the early 20th century, may have originated as military slang. In 1919, the Athenaeum stated that money for jam arose as the result of the 'great use of jam in the Army'.

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