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 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

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 a dear old foolish thing to be jealous," answered Vixen, "when he knows I'd go through fire and water for him."

From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)