PHRASAL VERB PIN

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Rachel's English


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This is the Rachel’s English 30-Day Challenge!
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Learn 30 phrasal verbs in 30 days!
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Jumpstart your vocabulary in 2017.
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This is Day 4 of your 30-day challenge.
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Today, we'll be learning phrasal verbs with "pin".
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When you pin something down, it has nothing to do with pinning something up.
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We usually use the phrase ‘to pin something down’ in the negative: I can’t pin it down.
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That means, I can’t understand or identify something.
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There’s something strange about him, but I can’t quite pin it down.
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I can’t quite figure out what is strange about him.
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If you pin a person down, then you physically hold them, maybe sit on them, make them unable to get up.
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We broke up the fight and pinned them down.
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It also means to get someone to be very clear about something,
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for example, I keep trying to make lunch plans with Sara, but I can’t get her to pin down a date.
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If you pin something on someone, well, it can literally mean to attach something to someone with a pin:
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she pinned the corsage on her date.
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But it can also mean, to try to make someone responsible for something,
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to try to make someone take the blame for something.
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She was in charge of the project that failed, but she tried to pin it on me.
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We also use it idiomatically to pin your hopes to or on something or someone.
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This is when you rely completely on this one thing or person to fix a situation.
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I’m pinning all my hopes on this new teacher, that she can help my son understand math.
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What about if you pin something up?
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Here, you are attaching something to a wall with pins.
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I pinned up an advertisement for a roommate on the bulletin board.
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As a noun, a pinup is a beautiful, sexy woman.
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Someone who would maybe be in a poster that you would put in a wall.
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She’s Hollywood’s latest pinup girl.
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‘Pin’ is a simple little word.
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The P consonant and the IH vowel, pi-.
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Ih, the tongue tip is down, but the front part arches towards the front of the roof of the mouth, ih, pi-ih.
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Pin. Then the N consonant, where the front top of the tongue comes to the roof of the mouth.
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ihn-- pin.
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The rest of the tongue is relaxed, nn. Pin, pin.
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