Put a pin in it, translated

A three-card decoder for "put a pin in it," with the office subtext and a clearer owner-and-date replacement.

A quick decoder for "put a pin in it".

Literal: Mark this topic so you can return to it later.
Office: Park it until someone remembers it.
In the meeting: "Put a pin in the pricing question." Translation: we are out of time, and the question now belongs to a future colleague.
Say instead: "Alex will confirm the pricing by Thursday." It names the owner and the date, so the topic has somewhere to go besides the meeting agenda.

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