cupboard love
短语n. 有所企图的亲热; 食橱之爱
释义与例句
n.
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Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange.
不可数1788, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Knowles April 20, 1788 read in Archibald Constable (editor), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Archibald Constable & Co, and Longman, etc. (1811) p. 103, This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs Thrale was, however, composed equally perhaps of cupboard-love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified from morn to night by incessant homage.