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Ter Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Idiom: with some bite?

"It's about reading the kinds of books that you love - books that have an edge, books with some bite, and books that show who you really are as a teenager."

have an edge - makes you feel you want to keep reading?
with some bite - (I totally don't get this)

thanks for the help. I can't come up with anything on google.
  

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This is what my Longman dictionary offers: - bite: a special quality in a performance, piece of writing etc that makes its arguments very effective and likely to persuade people. - edge = an advantage or special quality. Does this help?

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  • This is what my Longman dictionary offers: - bite: a special quality in a performance, piece of writing etc that makes its arguments very effective and likely to persuade people.
  • - edge = an advantage or special quality.
  • Does this help?
  • I hope so.
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This is what my Longman dictionary offers:

- bite: a special quality in a performance, piece of writing etc that makes its arguments very effective and likely to persuade people.

- edge = an advantage or special quality.

Does this help? I hope so.
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That is a sales pitch. The meaning was not so important to the writer as the effect the words themselves have on the target audience—teenage readers. The phrases "have an edge" and "with some bite" are designed to cater to the teenager's supposed appetite for thrills and danger without really meaning anything in particular as regards books.

To have an edge can mean that you have an advant
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