pin sth on sb
— Phrasal Verb with pin /pɪn/ verb [T] (present participle pinning, past tense and past participle pinned)Definition
informal
› to blame someone for something they did not do: They tried to pin the murder on the dead woman's husband.
(Definition of pin sth on sb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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