Synonyms for crutch
krʌtʃcrutch

Princeton's WordNet

1. crutchnoun

   a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking

2. crutchnoun

   anything that serves as an expedient

   "he uses drugs as a psychological crutch"

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1. • Expedient
   • Staff

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1. List of paraphrases for "crutch":

   cane

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1. Conor McGregor:

   Just out of the surgery room, everything went to plan, everything went perfect and I'm feeling tremendous. We've got six weeks on a crutch now and then we begin to build back.

2. John F. Kennedy:

   We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

3. Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972):

   History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

4. Lily Tomlin:

   Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

5. Tim Boyle:

   Obviously, we didn't have a few guys go, but we can't lean on that as a crutch, we should've done a better job in the first half of executing, there's no way of getting around that. I'm not extremely pleased with how we played in that first group.