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:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
JenniJEN-ee (English), YEN-nee (Finnish)English, Finnish
Katica-Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian
Refilwe-Southern African, Tswana
SibÉAl-Irish
Dekel-Hebrew
CemİLe-Turkish