cupboard : Idioms & Phrases

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airing cupboard

  • noun a warm cupboard where you put newly washed clothes until they are completely dry
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court-cupboard

Court"-cup`board noun
Definitions
  1. A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. Obs.
    A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
Webster 1913

Cupboard love

  • noun a show of affection motivated by selfishness
WordNet
  • interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. "A cupboard love is seldom true." Poor Robin. Colloq.
Webster 1913

skeleton in the cupboard

  • noun a scandal that is kept secret
    skeleton in the closet; skeleton.
    • there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet
WordNet

To cry cupboard

  • to call for food; to express hunger. Colloq. "My stomach cries cupboard." W. Irving.
Webster 1913