pin something on

“Police don’t listen to us,” lamented one African American teenager in Minneapolis, “they’re always trying to pin something on us.”

He told Henry that in examining this "crazy impeachment pursuit," House Democrats "have issued more subpoenas in order to pin something on Donald Trump than they have passed legislation that has gone on to become laws."

Immediately she assumed they were trying to pin something on her son.

She starts to pin something on him, like the Wizard of Oz giving the Cowardly Lion his medal.

HR were totally desperate to pin something on me, so they could justify the size of their investigation into my activities.