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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as a pin" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is very precise, accurate, or in perfect condition, often in the context of being "as straight as a pin" or "as neat as a pin."
Example: "After hours of careful adjustments, the picture frame was hanging as a pin on the wall."
Alternatives: "as straight as an arrow" or "as neat as a pin."
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Once she was pert and bright as a pin.
Democracy is not always as neat as a pin or a manicured lawn.
Everything in this melodramatic, paranoid stage set is as neat as a pin.
Each image is known as a "pin" and each board is themed.
She succeeded in keeping the countryside as neat as a pin.
In one respect his difference with Mr Obama is sharp as a pin.
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Christina's shoulder-length, straight-as-a-pin hair did give an optimistic little flip at the first, but the curl didn't look hardy enough to last until homeroom.
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Paul Walsh's superb translation maintains Ibsen's straightforward, neat-as-a-pin (and occasionally dreary) exposition but puts believable contemporary words on the characters' Victorian lips.
From the end of the Muromachi come a pair of screens depicting the annual cycle of rice cultivation, with neat-as-a-pin farmers going about their chores.
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