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English
Verb
pin one's hopes on (third-person singular simple present pins one's hopes on, present participle pinning one's hopes on, simple past and past participle pinned one's hopes on)
- To place all one's trust or hope in (someone or something).
2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:Wade is pinning Fox's next hopes for talent-show success on Alter Ego, which sees contestants perform as avatars to a panel of judges including Grimes, Alanis Morrisette and TV singing competition stalwart will.i.am.
Translations
to place all one's trust in
See also
Further reading
- “pin one's hopes on”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “pin one's hopes on”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “pin one's hopes on”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “pin your hopes on”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “pin your hopes on” (US) / “pin your hopes on” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.