0 love shown by someone, typically a child, in order to get something that they want, such as food --
I hope that it is not just cupboard love on the part of the regions.
Cupboard love of this sort, of course, demanded the maintenance of a well-stocked larder.
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.
Perhaps my enthusiasm for California sounds a little like cupboard love.
Not that there was any cupboard love in his little sweet—she was a bundle of affection.
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.