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- noun Plural form of
firebreather .
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Examples
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Many times, you can go to a show and see people walking on stilts, living statues, and firebreathers – in the audience!
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Journalist Josh Marshall confronted that bizarro narrative with evidence of what’s actually happening. “By any reasonable measure, this CNN headline is simply false, even painfully so,” he notes, adding, “even the firebreathers on the Republican side are not suggesting otherwise.
Ari Melber: Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias Ari Melber 2011
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Journalist Josh Marshall confronted that bizarro narrative with evidence of what’s actually happening. “By any reasonable measure, this CNN headline is simply false, even painfully so,” he notes, adding, “even the firebreathers on the Republican side are not suggesting otherwise.
Ari Melber: Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias Ari Melber 2011
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You sound like one of the Southern firebreathers in 1860;
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Eblair, there are firebreathers on BOTH sides of the political divide, and both of them can be horrendously scary.
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The firebreathers - the people who think, led by GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin, that Obama "pals around with terrorists," who refer to his New Deal-like economic policies as "Marxist," who think it to be the height of hilarity to refer to him as "Barack Hussein Obama" - no doubt ate this up.
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Meanwhile, I am immediately reminded of the Opening Ceremony for the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympic Games, in which hundreds of flaming stilt walkers, firebreathers, flaming club swingers, and assorted pyromaniacs recreated Australia's hyper-paramythic bushfire on a riveting scale unmatched before and since.
Scorched Earth 2006
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Meanwhile, I am immediately reminded of the Opening Ceremony for the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympic Games, in which hundreds of flaming stilt walkers, firebreathers, flaming club swingers, and assorted pyromaniacs recreated Australia's hyper-paramythic bushfire on a riveting scale unmatched before and since.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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And most Pakistanis don't seem to like firebreathers; in the latest elections, hard-liners drew less than 12 percent of the vote.
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I don't know what the Kerry admnistration will do about this, but I think it's fair to say that they are going to be under tremendous pressure to appear "tough" on terrorism by the enraged firebreathers on the right who are already gearing up to engage in their own special form of political torture should they lose.
Hullabaloo 2004
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