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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 |
LÁRa | | LOW-rah | Icelandic |
Kalena | | - | Hawaiian |
Yael | | - | Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew |
Frida | | - | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Ancient Germanic |
Daniyah | | - | Arabic |
Josu | | - | Basque |