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trusting the crutch so much you forget how legs work.

means depending on something (a tool, a person, a system) so heavily that your own ability to function without it quietly atrophies.

from from over- (excessive) plus reliance, from rely, via old french relier meaning to bind or fasten together; the irony is the word for trust literally means being tied down.

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