| 词汇 | cupboard-love |
| 释义 | cupboard love noun[ U ] UKuk /ˈkʌb.əd ˌlʌv/ us /ˈkʌb.ɚd ˌlʌv/ love shown by someone, typically a child, in order to get something that they want, such as food（尤指儿童）有所企图地表示亲热（如希望得到食物） Affected & insincere affectation affected affectedly archly artificial forced forcedly fustian glib glibly piously ponce ponce about/around posey preciously sugary super-smooth superslick talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom theatricality You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Praising insincerely or too eagerly He wants love, not gifts, from his people, a love which on their part does not fawn for other gifts from him in return, like the cupboard love of kittens purring for cream. Not that there was any cupboard love in his little sweet—she was a bundle of affection. Perhaps my enthusiasm for California sounds a little like cupboard love. Then, with the rather bitter cynicism of the old, he wondered for a second whether it was not cupboard love which made Irene put up with him. Examples of cupboard lovecupboard love I hope that it is not just cupboardlove on the part of the regions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Cupboardlove of this sort, of course, demanded the maintenance of a well-stocked larder. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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