Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.