emotional cripple | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)A person who has been renderedindecisive,alienated,uncaring,confused, orhelplessthrough experiencingdebilitatingemotions, such asworry,fear,panic,despair, etc.1997,Mordecai Richler,Barney's Version‎[1],→ISBN:The truth is I was anemotional cripplewhen I met her, drunk more often than not, punishing myself for doing things that went against my nature.1999April 24, Sarah Boxer, “Think Tank: A Son's Simple Diagnosis of His Father's Complexities”, inNew York Times, retrieved23 January 2013:His mother's affliction was "panic disorder with agoraphobia, which made her anemotional cripplefor many years."2002,Douglas Adams,The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time,→ISBN,page 9:[I]f I ever come across as a maladjusted, socially isolated, sad, hunchedemotional cripple(I'm thinking mainly of Sunday mornings in February, here), then it's those four weeks of having to wear short trousers in September 1964 that are to blame.

Examples:

EN: "My son, an emotional cripple" Stop.
ES: Mi hijo no tiene corazón, stop.
EN: My brother's an emotional cripple.
ES: Mi hermano era sólo un perturbado.
EN: I don't believe this. You took advantage of an emotional cripple. I don't believe this.
ES: Se aprovechó de un lisiado emocional.
EN: You took advantage of an emotional cripple. - That's no better than Vickers.
ES: - Igual que Vickers.
EN: Brad's an emotional cripple.
ES: Brad es un lisiado emocional.
ES: Brad es un lisiado emocional.
EN: You know, I'm getting awfully sick of hearing about that emotional cripple.
ES: Sabes, me estoy poniendo enferma escuchando cosas sobre ese lisiado emocional.
EN: - He's an emotional cripple, remember?
ES: - Es un lisiado emocional, ¿recuerdas?
ES: - Es un lisiado emocional, ¿recuerdas?
EN: She's an emotional cripple.
ES: Ella es una lisiada emocional.
EN: You said I was an emotional cripple, a social misfit!
ES: Dijiste que era una lisiada emocional, una inadaptada social.
EN: You're an emotional cripple.
ES: Eres emocionalmente inválida.
ES: Usted es un lisiado emocional.
EN: It's not my fault you're an emotional cripple.
ES: Eres un disminuido emocional.
EN: An emotional cripple!
ES: ¡Un discapacitado emocional!
EN: Make it about something safe 'cause you're an emotional cripple.
ES: Adelante hazlo eres un lisiado emocional
EN: What kind of desperate and pathetic emotional cripple would actually buy that as an ending?
ES: ¿Qué clase de inválido emocional tan desesperado y patético podría tragarse ese final?
EN: - ..total emotional cripple with not one iota of self-respect.
ES: - ... un completo desastre emocional sin un ápice de autorespeto.

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