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Definition of Ball of fire
1. Noun. A highly energetic and indefatigable person.
Generic synonyms: Actor, Doer, Worker
Specialized synonyms: Self-starter
2. Noun. Someone whose career progresses rapidly.
Definition of Ball of fire
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A person who is especially hard-working, high-achieving, ambitious, or active. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ball Of Fire
Literary usage of Ball of fire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1887)
"The photographs of lightning exhibited, especially those taken at Brighton, seemed
to show that the lightning was really a ball of fire. Rev. ..."
2. Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings ; Extending from by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"... the latter was disarmed, but his Adversary contented himself only with breaking
his Sword, and generously gave him his Life. The Ball of Fire. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"I observed what appeared to be a ball of fire between two and three feet in
diameter rolling along the street. It was also accompanied by several others of ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1856)
"... and had scarcely done so when my wife called out that she saw a ball of fire
fall into the sea in the vicinity of the outer light-ship. ..."
5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"... is not only content to take a foil, but even out of the same thing wherein he
was foiled maketh he matter of в new temptation, a new ball of fire. ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1872)
"Haidinger, in a theory embracing all the phenomena of meteorites, explains the
formation of a ball of fire round the meteor, by supposing that the meteorite ..."
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