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cupboard

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1. cupboard - Noun

2. cupboard - Verb

Meaning

A board or shelf for cups and dishes.

A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.

To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. John Lennon

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. Penelope Lively

Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or inside! Get into the cupboard with some spinach!" When I was a child they'd kick you out and you weren't expected to come back until there were bats! Dylan Moran

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. Thomas Fuller

Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. Traditional Proverb

His belly cries cupboard. Romanian Proverb

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