English Dictionary

put a pin in

verb

To discredit or ridicule; to deflate someone or something that is pompous or overly esteemed. / To make something certain; to nail down.

I decided to put a pin in his argument and move on to the next topic.

意味（1）

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 .

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

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.