Where did the saying "Crap on a crutch" originate? My mother used to use it a lot and I find myself using it also.
Learn English – the origin of “cr*p on a crutch”
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Best Answer
I agree with @Randolf Richardson's comment. It looks like just a slightly sanitised version of shit on a stick. Which originally I think just meant "useless", but is probably often used as a somewhat meaningless expression of exasperation, simply because of the memorable alliteration.
Both these expressions may owe something to mistletoe, which some think derives from words meaning "shit on a stick" (though others are less certain about the etymology). I really don't know, but I'd quite like to think it's a colourful scatalogical metaphor.