- Home
- Idioms
- fire-breather
fire-breather
fire-breather
One who is intensely and aggressively passionate and fiercely determined. Likened to a dragon or other beast able to shoot streams of fire from its mouth. The company's new boss proved to be a real fire-breather, and in just a few months she turned a once-middling local business into a national powerhouse.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Jenni | | JEN-ee (English), YEN-nee (Finnish) | English, Finnish |
| Katica | | - | Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian |
| Refilwe | | - | Southern African, Tswana |
| SibÉAl | | - | Irish |
| Dekel | | - | Hebrew |
| CemİLe | | - | Turkish |