Oxford English Dictionary Editor John Simpson wondered about such connections and wrote to the creator of Peanuts in regard to the origin of security blanket. In addition, he was a World War II veteran and may have been familiar with its military use. See? You just sort of scrunch your face into it, and right away you feel secure." Notably, Schulz does not have Charlie Brown say "security blanket," even though it is quite possible that he would have encountered the term: the earliest known print evidence of it in the sense of "a blanket carried by a child as a protection against anxiety" is also in late 1954. In October of that same year, the Peanuts character Charlie Brown, wearing his signature zigzag shirt, is also depicted with a blanket and tells Linus's sister Lucy, who unsurprisingly interrogates him (she does run a psychiatry booth, after all), that it is "a security and happiness blanket" that "all little kids carry." He goes on to say, "They're just the thing to have when you're tired and discouraged. It is in June of 1954 that Linus makes an appearance in Schulz's cartoon holding his blanket securely. His nukes are not some sort of security blanket. She would have been unaware that private security guards … were not capable of giving her the total security blanket that Scotland Yard had done. Warren Christopher, speaking on PBS, 16 Dec. It's a very powerful military alliance, and before we extend NATO, move it out, make that security blanket effective in other countries, I think the other countries are going to have to demonstrate that they can contribute to NATO. Postwar, it also continues to serve as a word for armed protective security measures. military might for Europe and pulled aside the security blanket that often allowed both sides to cover up or resolve their economic disputes for the greater good of preserving the anticommunist alliance. Moreover, the end of the Cold War has sharply reduced the importance of U.S. The existence of this simulator-ten times the size of any other yet built-is one small indication of how much work on missiles is actually being achieved in this country, even though it is still done under a security blanket that irritates. After the war, the sense continued to be used generally for any type of secrecy, and it is often encountered in politically charged contexts.Ī security blanket cannot be maintained indefinitely on scientific developments-the British and Russian test explosions have proved that no one country can have a monopoly of atomic knowledge, however carefully its secrets are guarded. We are not privy to how this sense came about in the armed forces, but the notion of keeping something covered up with a blanket (held by "security blanket fasteners") comes to mind, and during wartime, security implies the maintenance of secrecy as well as cover.
military jargon and referred to any measures or sanctions taken for security purposes, but especially to those for keeping military information secret. Needless to say, this security blanket is now considered medieval.ĭuring World War II, the term security blanket was enlisted into U.S. Although the security blanket did, indeed, secure the little one-essentially, strapping him or her to the bed-the anchored blanket was designed so that in the event that the child became restless, he or she would remain snugly covered.
In the 1920s, a security blanket was a blanket that was placed over a sleeping child and fastened by clips. "See? You just sort of scrunch your face into it, and right away you feel secure."
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