go through fire and water
Example Sentences
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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 β 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
He would go through fire and water for Tilly.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
She did not announce her secret determination to go through fire and water, if necessary, rather than submit to the plan of her relatives.
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth
"If it was an old bodkin that was given me by one I loved, I 'd go through fire and water to get possession of it."
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
