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
Hickey	['hiki]
Erland	ER-lahnd (Swedish)	Swedish, Danish
ĐUrĐIca	JOOR-jee-tsah	Croatian
Atifa	-	Arabic
SelÂHattİN	-	Turkish
Taneka	tə-NEE-kə	African American (Rare)