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"Cupboard love" nghĩa là gì?
25 Jan, 2020
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| Cupboard inspection. Photo courtesy hobvias. |
'Cupboard love' có từ cupboard là tủ, và love là tình yêu. Cụm từ này chỉ sự bày tỏ tình yêu xuất phát từ động cơ ích kỉ hay tham lam, nhằm đạt được điều gì (mối tình vờ vịt). Có ý kiến cho rằng, cụm từ này bắt nguồn từ cách con mèo rất "yêu" cái tủ bếp nếu chứa đồ ăn nó muốn.
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I suspected all along it was just cupboard love, and what she really liked about him was his car.
Like all dog owners, I have been subjected to the big brown eyes routine. But the fact that dogs exhibit cupboard love in the hunt for a biscuit, doesn’t mean that they are not capable of purer forms of that emotion, too. After all, scientists are happy to recognise different types of aggression in dogs: sex-related, territorial, pain-induced and so on.
Speaking at the Peres Academic Center in Rehovot, the former U.S. president said he always felt at home in Israel and that he loves the country more than words can express. Clinton also called President Shimon Peres, who is celebrating his 90th birthday, one of the world’s greatest visionaries... I feel sorry for Israel. Bill Clinton is only saying these things to get the cool half million for his foundation and to grease the skids for fundraising for Hillary 2016. It’s called cupboard-love. If the money runs out, so does the love.
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