put a pin in
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To discredit or ridicule; to deflate someone or something that is pompous or overly esteemed.
— Another has heard the Thomas orchestra play the overture, or remembers how well the orchestra under Mancinelli came out with the fine touches of the music, and this one puts a pin in the orchestra. The music critic, that microcosm of the tonal world, has heard all these things, and he puts a pin in every one of them and goes home and looks in the glass to find the halo due him for having performed a virtuous act .
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To make something certain; to nail down.
— Every time he seemed to have a notion of what, why and when, whenever he seemed to be able to put a pin in that ever elusive cause, that ghost that was to blame, whoever it belonged to it would suddenly and without warning disappear.
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To postpone; to stop focusing or working on (something) until it can be finished at a later time.
— “Remember that gay unsub in Santa Monica who killed boys on their twenty-first birthdays? He brought them home, sat them up at his dinner table, and served the corpses birthday cake.” “Okay, let's put a pin in that for a minute. We don't know why he actually cooked a Cajun dinner, but let's assume he did.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, pin, in.
— A woman makes a wax man, puts a pin in its chest; and the man dies.
词源
Metaphors that arise from various uses of pins, including popping a balloon, pinning in place, and marking with a pin (such as a map position) so that something can be found quickly later.
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