stick a pin there

Better and better; and yet p. 30. he tells us; Long and ſad Experience proved that All the Means be uſed to reform the World, proved ineffectual: So Good that he deſigns, and deſires the Happinevs of all his Creatures, according to the Capacity of Their Natures, Stick a Pin there.

1645, William Sherlock, Anti-Sozzo, sive Sherlociſmus Enervatus, London: Nathanael Ponder, page 171

For instance, when a common person would say Stop, a military man would say Halt, a sailor Avast, a plough-jogger Whoh or Hush, and a quoter of poetry, "Stick a pin there." But enough of this.

1781, The Belknap Papers; in Collections of the Massachussetts Historical Society: Volume II. Fifth Series, Boston, 1877, page 103

But to call Dr. York an orator, this rantor, with — to use one of his favorite adjectives — his 'wangbang' style, shouting, stamping, sawing the air, and capering like a mountebank, I say to call him an orator, is a perversion of the word. Stick a pin there.

1886 July 31, The Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette, Qld, page 3, column 6

The first song of the katydid heard in this city this summer was rendered on Monday evening, August 6. Stick a pin there.

1900 August 10, The Woburn Journal, Massachussetts, page 2, column 5

Stick a pin there. History has it that Nero fiddled while Rome burned: Mr. Eggleston smiled while the class war raged! First, let us remind this teacher of men that there is only one working class in every country, and Australia is not the exception.

1915 June 17, The People, Sydney, page 1, column 4