If you refer to the ~ in someone or something, you mean the quality that makes them lively or interesting. (INFORMAL)
He just lacked that extra ~...
There’s nothing like fresh basil to put a ~ into a tomato sauce.
N-UNCOUNT: also a N
If you refer to the ~ in someone or something, you mean the quality that makes them lively or interesting. (INFORMAL)
He just lacked that extra ~...
There’s nothing like fresh basil to put a ~ into a tomato sauce.
N-UNCOUNT: also a N
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012