Blanket

The wrong side of the blanket. A love-child is said to come of the wrong side of the blanket.

“He grew up to be a fine waule fallow, like mony ane that comes oʹ the wrang side oʹ the blanket.”—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xxiv.

A wet blanket. A discouragement, a marplot. A person is a wet blanket who discourages a proposed scheme. “Treated with a wet blanket,” discouraged. “A wet blanket influence,” etc. A wet blanket is used to smother fire, or to prevent one escaping from a fire from being burnt.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Blanket

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