go to the wall
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“We’ll go to the wall to keep it open space,” Gordon Murley, president of the Woodland Hills Homeowners Organization, said at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
“We have to go to the wall to defend those private properties, and that is the end of the story,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Among things McCann planned to focus on: “Don’t go to the wall — just try to stay in the middle of the ice,” he said, laughing.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
"Just as we have done so far, we will go to the wall if it's about protecting our children," Varga said, adding that uphold the legislation was necessary and further measures would be taken.
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023
He talked of ‘its not being resistible;’ he said that ‘the Lords must give way or a collision would be the consequence,’ and ‘he knew who would go to the wall.’
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Charles Greville
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