pin on
Formspins on, pinning on, pinned on
- 1To hold someone responsible for something, especially unfairly.
The data breach was a blunder that rival executives were all too eager to pin on her.
Detectives pinned the warehouse fire on a local teenager, but their case later fell apart.
Similarblame
Note
The thing being blamed usually sits between the two words: the police pin the theft on someone. They meet only when that object moves elsewhere, as in the passive (the theft was pinned on him) or a relative clause (a blunder rivals were eager to pin on her). A pronoun always goes inside, pin it on him and never pin on him it, and the n doubles in pinned and pinning.
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