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单词 to pull the pin on
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to pull the pin on
(c) Chiefly North American. to pull the pin: to remove the coupling mechanism of a trailer, railway wagon, etc.; (figurative) to abandon something, give up, resign. to pull the pin on: to abandon (a project, etc.); to dismiss (an employee).
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the world > action or operation > completing > non-completion > abandon an attempt or enterprise [verb (intransitive)]
unbenda1400
unbinda1400
to leave (a person) the field?c1450
to give upa1616
to call (it) quits1851
to pull the pin1860
to hang up one's fiddle1889
to pack in1906
to pack up1925
to cop out1942
to give it away1949
society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > specific railway operations
work1810
to pull the pin1860
highball1911
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > vacate an office or position > resign
resign1395
resignate1531
to go out1642
to lay down1682
to swear off1698
to turn up1819
to pull the pin1860
to send in one's papers1872
to step down1890
to snatch it or one's time1941
1860 Dawson's Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Times 1 Oct. 3 The brakeman pulled the pin connecting the freight cars with the passenger cars, just in time to save the latter from being precipitated into the river.
1926 Amer. Speech 1 250/2 To leave the service, ‘pull the pin’; to quit for the day is to ‘pin for home’.
1947 R. O. Boyer Dark Ship ii. xvii. 227 The teamsters had pulled the pin too early. The strike is being lost.
1968 Amer. Speech 43 289 Pull the pin, to resign, quit, or be fired from a job.
1991 Sci. Fiction Writers of Amer. Bull. Fall 14/3 Occasionally a publisher will ‘pull the pin’ on a book because they're over-bought.
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