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

I would go through fire and water for you.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

Because I would go through fire and water to be near you.

From Linda Tressel by Trollope, Anthony

There isn't a man in the country that wouldn't go through fire and water for her—God bless her!

From The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Fillmore, Parker