English-Spanish translations for crutch

muletaSin embargo, Europa no es un una muleta ni una cura para la crisis económica. However, Europe is not a crutch or a cure for an economic crisis. Estamos en contra de que se utilice al Estado como muleta para el capital privado. We are against the state being used as a crutch for private capital. Coincido en que es pronto para retirar las muletas al enfermo, pero es tiempo ya de prepararle para andar sin ellas. I agree that it is too soon to take away the patient's crutches, but that it is time to get him ready to walk without them.
apoyoEn cuanto al tema de las cuotas, estas siempre han servido de apoyo, pero también podemos tender puentes. Turning to the subject of quotas, these are always crutches, but they can be bridges. Debido a los problemas constitucionales de Alemania, la adición al tratado es un mero apoyo político para desarrollar todavía más el paquete de rescate, ni más ni menos. Because of Germany's constitutional problems, the addition to the treaty is simply a political crutch for the further development of the rescue package, nothing more and nothing less.

A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg
Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk
A knee, or piece of knee timber
A type of cross formed from two C-shapes joined back to back
To support on crutches; to prop up
To move on crutches
To stir with a crutch (in soap making

He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.

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