cupboard love

Noun

 * 1) Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange.
 * 2) * 1788, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Knowles April 20, 1788 read in Archibald Constable (editor), Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Archibald Constable & Co, and Longman, etc. (1811) p. 103,
 * This last and long-enduring passion for Mrs Thrale was, however, composed equally perhaps of cupboard-love, Platonic love, and vanity tickled and gratified from morn to night by incessant homage.

Translations

 * Irish: grá don ailp, grá na hailpe