security blanket

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security blanket

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Etymology

From Linus van Pelt's security blanket in Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.

Noun

security blanket (plural security blankets)

1. A blanket that one uses to have a secure feeling or reduced anxiety, usually in the early years of life.
2. Any object one uses to have a sense of security or reduced anxiety.

   That rabbit's foot is his security blanket.

Translations

blanket used to produce secure feeling

Finnish: turvariepu German: Kuscheldecke (de) f Swedish: snuttefilt (sv) c Thai: ผ้าเน่า (pâa-nâo)

any object used to produce sense of security

Finnish: turvariepu Swedish: snuttefilt (sv) c