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See also: pinon
English[edit]
Verb[edit]
pin on (third-person singular simple present pins on, present participle pinning on, simple past and past participle pinned on)
- (transitive) To place the blame for (something) on (someone), especially unjustly.
- The police pinned the theft on my brother.
- 2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian[1]:
- US reputational damage is not confined to Europe. There was dismay among the G7 countries that a joint statement on tackling the pandemic could not be agreed because Trump insisted on calling it the “Wuhan virus” – his crude way of pinning sole blame on China.
Further reading[edit]
- “pin something on someone”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “pin something on someone”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “pin on” (US) in Macmillan English Dictionary.