put teeth into

put teeth into something

to make a law or rule effective The threat of fines and jail put real teeth into the laws regulating how and where children can work.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Seong-Su	sung-soo	Korean
Pons	-	French (Rare)
Muireall	-	Scottish
Angelle	-	English (Rare)
JosemarÍA	-	Spanish
Adlai	AD-lay (English), AD-lie (English)	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew