pin on

See also: pinon

English

Verb

pin on (third-person singular simple present pins on, present participle pinning on, simple past and past participle pinned on)

1. (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

• “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.

Anagrams

• ninpo, ninpō