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Idioms and Phrases
Attribute to someone, especially a wrongdoing or crime. For example, They pinned the murder on the wrong man . This expression uses pin in the sense of “attach.†[First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
The italics are mine, so put a pin on that phrase because it’s important.
The deputies had arrested him after discovering firearms stashed in a loveseat — none of which were used in a slaying that investigators would attempt, for years, to pin on him.
He also installed a large, red Google Maps pin on A4155 Reading to Henley road in 2014.
Both Trump and Vance are pictured in blue suits, white collared shirts and blue ties, with Trump wearing a small US flag pin on his lapel.
After a local farmer helped the lorry driver become unstuck, the pin on Google Maps was taken down and the number of people travelling through Cyffylliog has returned to normal.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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