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
At the sound of her voice so softly calling all violence was forgotten; love poured back in a flood upon him; he would go through fire and water to possess her in the end.
From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon
He's my foster-brother, by the way, that chap, and would go through fire and water to serve me.
From Vestigia Vol. I. by Fleming, George
To such a one they are loyal to the backbone, and will go through fire and water in his train.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)
