cupboard love

noun

a personal attachment that appears to be motivated by love but in fact stems from the hope of gain.

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First recorded in 1750–60

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There's cupboard-love, at any rate; but never mind, let's go and listen to this opera.

The commissariat at home is too good to justify any suspicion of this ignoble sort of cupboard love.

He has a cupboard love for Sarah, but I think that his affection for me is simon-pure.

"It's cupboard love as brings you out so sharp," he said, his voice resounding in the cold darkness.

Perhaps my enthusiasm for California sounds a little like cupboard love.

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