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 • 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
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I tell you I hate Helen Perowne now devoutly, but I’d go through fire and water to save her from that black scoundrel.
From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville
She'd go through fire and water for you.
From Mary Rose of Mifflin by Sterrett, Frances R.
"And that you were the only person he knew who would go through fire and water for him?" said Mr. Linden.
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan