fire-eater 的定义
- an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.
- an easily provoked, belligerent person.
- U.S. History. an early and extreme Southern advocate of secession before the Civil War.
fire-eater 近义词
等同于 shrew
更多fire-eater例句
- But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
- The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
- Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
- Maybe Mary is being more realistic about a second marriage—but is it too much to ask for a little fire?
- A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings.
- "A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
- She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
- The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.
- But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
- The men, whose poniards his sword parried, had recourse to fire-arms, and two pistols were fired at him.