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Deceive into trustfulness, as in The steadily rising market lulled investors into a false sense of security . The earliest recorded version of this term referred to wine: “Fitter indeed to bring and lull men asleep in the bed of security” (Philemon Holland, Pliny's Historie of the World , 1601. Today it still often appears with the phrase a false sense of security .

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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