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.
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