fire-breathing skill
- noun
:
habilidad de escupir fuego
- Her impressive fire-breathing skill amazed the audience during the festival.
Examples
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Learning fire-breathing skill requires patience, safety precautions, and expert guidance.
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The circus performer showcased her fire-breathing skills.
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He spent years perfecting his fire-breathing skill before joining the circus troupe.
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He has a remarkable fire-breathing skill.
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She demonstrated her fire-breathing skill with a spectacular show that illuminated the night sky.
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After months of practice, he finally mastered the art of fire-breathing skill and impressed the crowd.
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In his performance, the juggler incorporated his fire-breathing skill, mesmerizing everyone in attendance.
Surface Forms
Morphology
fire-breathing + skill
The phrase is fully compositional: 'fire-breathing' (producing fire by breathing) plus 'skill' (ability) yields the meaning 'the ability to breathe fire' which a B1 learner who knows the parts can deduce. This is a literal compound following standard English noun-compounding patterns and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so it is immediately understandable from its constituents.
Etymology
Fire-breathing skill comes from the strong image of a performer who holds fuel in their mouth, uses breathing to blow the fuel out, and lights it to make a big fire, like a human dragon. That's why fire-breathing skill means 'the ability to create a dramatic flame' in a show.
