pin something on
Example Sentences
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Immediately she assumed they were trying to pin something on her son.
From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2019
She starts to pin something on him, like the Wizard of Oz giving the Cowardly Lion his medal.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 27, 2016
Though she herself was never actually connected with bombs & bloodshed, Emma Goldman's burgeoning reputation as a fomenter of trouble led the police into many an attempt to pin something on her.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Are you trying to pin something on me?
From The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself by Rudder, Robert S.
I'd made a bet with myself that they'd pin something on him before he got through, but he died just out of spite to make me lose.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Gibson, Charles Dana