His clothes, saying to himself, in an under-tone: "Stick a pin in it. He then took up his wallet, and retired to his room to change "Stick a pin in that, Doctor," says I, "for it's worth rememberin' as a wise saw." God has made many sunny spots in the heart why should we exclude the We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. I haven't laughed before that way for many a long day. " Oh, you would make a new man of me soon, I am sure you would, if I was any time with you. There may be other origins, but this is the earliest figurative use of the phrase I've found. The passage also suggests an origin of the phrase, related to the preserving of insects by an entomologist, by literally sticking a pin in it. The narrator replies, " Stick a pin in that, Doctor, for it's worth rememberin' as a wise saw." The Doctor has just said " God has made sunny spots in the heart why should we exclude the light from them?"
In 1859, the book "Nature and Human Nature" by Thomas Chandler Haliburton included the phrase "Stick a pin in it", in a somewhat figurative manner that alludes to keeping something set apart to refer back to in the future. This, with further elaboration of "turn back to it again", supports the explanation of a pin used to mark a place in a book. The sales of sheep, at this one fair (including Appleshaw), must have amounted, this year, to a hundred and twenty or thirty thousand pounds less than last year! Stick a pin there, master "PROSPERITY ROBINSON," and turn back to it again anon! The quotation marks appear in the original texts (which suggests to me an early idiomatic use).ġ826 – William Cobbett also used the phrase again in his column "Rural Ride, from Burghclere to Lyndhurst, in the New Forest", which was first published in the Political Register on Octo(and republished in 1826 in his book Rural Rides, p. At present, we will " stick a pin there." Fasten so much up in your and my memory: and in the meanwhile What law they had for these things a day may come, perhaps, for inquiring in a lawful way. at the same time, made grand military preparations, not leaving out the cannons. John Hayes, on Lawyer Scarlett's Poor-Law Bill" from his newspaper Cobbett's Weekly Political Register on (republished in 1835 in Selections from Cobbett's Political Works, Volume 6, p. Searching for the phrase "stick a pin" (between 17) in Google Books turned up the following occurrences:ġ821 – The phrase appears in William Cobbett's column "To Mr. There is another occurrence in the Wikipedia entry on (standard/straight) pins mentioning their use in marking or pinning together pages of a book, so maybe this was a common enough practice to coin the phrase. Given this, I would say an occurrence of the phrase pre-1750 makes an origin in the sewing trades more likely? Later, in 1903, in Lychen, German clockmaker Johann Kirsten invented flat-headed pins for use with drawings. Moore described them as a pin with a handle. Modern drawing pins were also found as standard in architects’ drawing boxes in the late 18th century.Įdwin Moore patented the "push-pin" in the US in 1900 and founded the Moore Push-Pin Company. It was said that the use of the newly invented drawing pin to attach notices to school house doors was making significant contribution to the whittling away of their gothic doors. It was first mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1759. The drawing pin was invented in name and as a mass-produced item in what is now the United States in the mid/late 1750s.
Wikipedia offers this on the history of the drawing pin or push pin (with some great detail about their effect on woodwork): I can easily picture this coming from the tailoring trade (as so many idioms did) where you pin fabric in position before sewing it down. Multiple sources mention Jane Austen's use of pins to mark edits in her manuscript but I don't know if this was a wide enough practice to coin a phrase. Urban Dictionary (sorry) offers a WWII origin of putting the pin back in a grenade so it doesn't explode. Possible origins I've found or considered: I searched the site, but didn't see this asked or answered. Does anyone have a definitive origin for the phrase/idiom "Put/stick a pin in it/that" used to mean "let's delay, come back to something later"?
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