as in tiger
an aggressive and fiercely determined person
the only hope for turning around that failing company would be a CEO who's a real fire-breather
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Other winners include outrageous accommodations like pods, bubbles, caves, and treehouses, while bucket-list adventures include sleeping with tigers or hanging from cliffs.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025 -
It’s packed with skin-soothing tiger grass, brightening licorice root, and nourishing Kalahari melon oil—and was made specifically with melanin-rich skin in mind.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Glamour,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Fire-breather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire-breather. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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