1 general:: Phrase(s): get someone out of a jam Fig. to get someone out of trouble. • Thanks for getting my brother out of that jam. • How am I going to get myself out of this jam?, Phrase(s): get out of a jam Fig. to get free from a problem or a bad situation. • Would you lend me five hundred dollars? I need it to get out of a jam. • I need some help getting out of a jam.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs