The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article.

-Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.5.

   When Harriet goes to bed with a man, she always takes her wet blanket with her.

-Broyard, Anatole
  On a character in Iris Owen's  After Claude (1973).  Aroused by Books.

There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

-Davies, Robertson
  Love and Libel.