Love from interested motives. The allusion is to the love of children to some indulgent person who gives them something nice from her cupboard.
“Cupboard love is seldom true.”—Poor Robin.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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