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fire-breather

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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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“Fire-breather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire-breather. Accessed 5 Dec. 2022.

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