Voorbeelden van cupboard love

• 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. 

• Cupboard love of this sort, of course, demanded the maintenance of a well-stocked larder.

• I hope that it is not just cupboard love on the part of the regions.