put an edge on
Example Sentences
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It can put an edge on a writer too.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, to give the Cole Porter score bite, he put an edge on the staid Volksoper orchestra in the form of a dozen Viennese axmen, most of whom cut up in brass.
From Time Magazine Archive
A pity he did not live long enough to put an edge on it.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
It was a splendid day and the ride was just enough to put an edge on the meet that was to follow.
From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
Still, the afternoon's work, in some thirty or forty degrees of frost, had put an edge on his appetite, and he tackled the fish—which two days before he would have scorned—with avidity.
From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Rockwell, Norman
