单词 | to pin oneself on a person's sleeve |
释义 | > as lemmasto pin oneself on (also to) a person's sleeve a. transitive (frequently reflexive). To make dependent, contingent, or reliant on or upon; to make beholden, subject, or attached to. Formerly frequently in †to pin oneself on (also to) a person's sleeve. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > make dependent on pin1578 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 40 Alas fonde foole arte thou so pinned to theire sleeues that thou regardest more their babble then thine owne blisse? 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 321 This Gallant pins the Wenches on his sleeue. View more context for this quotation 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxv. 75 He made himself absolute master of all orders, pinning them on himself by an immediate dependance. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 97 They wholly pin themselves upon the advice of those Magitians. 1710 Tatler No. 219. ⁋1 A Couple of professed Wits, who..had thought fit to pin themselves upon a Gentleman. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 151 He had been very assiduous to pin himself upon George Prankley,..knowing the said Prankley was heir to a considerable estate. 1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning ii. iv I might pin my fate to yours. 1885 H. M. Milner Turpin's Ride to York i. iii. 5/2 No wonder he's in trouble. When a man once pins himself to the petticoats, it's all up with him. 1907 Times 9 Sept. 17/3 He should dubitate very much if he were leader of the Unionist party before he pinned himself to protection. 2002 Jrnl. News (Westchester County, N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Apr. 7 b It gives them the beginning of something they can really pin themselves to. < as lemmas |
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