"pin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

pin verbo

pin + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 9
pin one's hopes • pin one's arms • pin the blame • pin one's legs • pin one's hands • ...
(2) blame, hand, responsibility
Kolokacji: 3
2. pin one's hands = spinać szpilkami czyjś ręce pin one's hands
3. pin responsibility = odpowiedzialność szpilki pin responsibility
  • Brian Sun, a lawyer for Mr. Smith, said it was irresponsible for the Justice Department to try to pin full responsibility on the former agent.
  • It is on Baulk that observers pin responsibility for a dilution of the original AMV brand values.
  • Japanese authorities arrested a property magnate today in an apparent move to begin pinning responsibility for the nation's debt crisis.
  • That Alice would pin responsibility on him in order to turn Noy against him was not the whole story.
  • The regime's attempt to pin responsibility on only a few officials soon went awry.
  • "Preposterous nonsense," snorted Representative Downey, just this side of apoplectic, before pinning responsibility for homelessness on what he called cuts in housing assistance.
  • But doctors and their employees fear that plaintiffs' lawyers will try to pin legal responsibility for recognizing warning signals on them, no matter who is collecting the data.
  • But as the scandal deepened and investigators found it difficult to pin responsibility directly on the various supervisors they looked at, Mr. Bratton changed his thinking.
  • But he quickly pinned responsibility for the worst lawlessness on the Moscow city government, run by a political rival, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
  • Meanwhile, Damascus will have staved off international sanctions, pinning responsibility for disarming Hezbollah on the United Nations.
pin + preposición
Kolokacji: 27
pin down • pin up • pin against • pin to • pin on • ...
pin + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 6
pinned together • pin firmly • neatly pin • effectively pin • quickly pin • ...

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