put an edge on

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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

And I am very sure that the men who write best do not necessarily know the most; Fate has put an edge on them—that's all.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Hubbard, Elbert

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