put a pin in

動詞

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

日本語の意味

過大評価されたり傲慢に振る舞うものをけなす、嘲笑する / 物事を確実に固める、決定する

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During the debate, she tried to put a pin in his reputation by publicly mocking his policy proposals.

討論中、彼女は彼の政策提案を公然と嘲笑して、彼の評判を落とそうとした。

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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puts a pin in （ present singular third-person ）

putting a pin in （ participle present ）

put a pin in （ participle past ）

put a pin in （ past ）