crutch
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- noun
- /krʌtʃ/
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- After losing her job, she found herself relying on shopping as a crutch to deal with her stress.
In terms of Lidar being a crutch, sure.
- In terms of Lidar being a crutch, sure.
- Do you think it's a crutch that we rely on?
- And, and that was kind of a crutch, right.
- And all you've done is become this man's crutch and he can't walk on his own.
- Got to ask you, you use that crutch quite a bit in the DARPA days.
- Like vulnerability can't be a scapegoat or an exit or a crutch for me.
- But here's the thing, like you, you can't use that as a crutch for not talking about it.
- And my relationship with food has been that it's a crutch.
- Someone once told me that every solution ultimately becomes a crutch, and I found this to be true.
- However, he can't use it as a crutch.
- However, he can't use that as a crutch.
- And I feel like there's a looking back today that's a crutch.
- I said people who don't think they're cool use drugs and alcohol as a crutch to seem cool.
- That's good and it's got its place, but we don't have to use it as a crutch to kind of live off.
- But we have to first let go of the mental crippling crutch that we carry, which is this victim mindhood, right?
- That's what languages that don't have many words do, that they use repetition as a crutch.
- And there's some things mentioned in those videos that they're not wrong, but they're crutches.
Examples
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It's a way to get their mind off of things, all right, and it's become a crutch for some guys.
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Aren't you just using God as a crutch?
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Do you think it's a crutch that we rely on?
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I mean, some people use money as a crutch.
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My parents were honest in their poverty and never used it as a crutch or a badge of honor.
Fiction book (2001) -
Someone once told me that every solution ultimately becomes a crutch, and I found this to be true.
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I myself am fighting to walk without the crutch of the Bad Japanese Games stigma.
Blog text (9) -
And so I felt quite directionless without the crutch of throwing myself into my work.
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When used inappropriately, it can be a crutch that actually prevents students from learning.
Academic text (2007) -
But here's the thing, like you, you can't use that as a crutch for not talking about it.
Synonyms
A support like a crutch used to help a person walk after an injury
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Etymology
A helpful way to remember the non-physical meaning of crutch is to think of the walking tool: the name comes from an old German word for a 'staff' and is like German Krücke. That's why a crutch can mean anything you lean on for support in hard times.