security blanket

English

Etymology

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

Noun

security blanket (plural security blankets)

A blanket that one uses to have a secure feeling or reduced anxiety, usually in the early years of life: Linus van Pelt had a famous security blanket.
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 f

Swedish: snuttefilt (sv) c

any object used to produce sense of security

Finnish: turvariepu

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