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	Pronounced	Usage
Ryoichi	ṙyo:-ee-chee	Japanese
Alma (1)	AL-mə (English)	English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch
Eirlys	-	Welsh
Diodorus	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Tere	TE-re	Spanish
Yarognev	-	Medieval Slavic