go through fire and water
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For example, I asked him that when Pamina and Tamino go through fire and water there should be real danger; in most productions, it feels like a symbolic, pleasant walk.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2012
At week's end, with Mrs. Bernstein heartily protesting "I'd go through fire and water for that boy!"
From Time Magazine Archive
I would go through fire and water for you.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
He would go through fire and water for Tilly.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
And is it not because of this, that immediately after his death there appeared so many “bosom” friends, for whom, in their words, he would be ready to go through fire and water?
From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by I. A. Bunin
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