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
Because I would go through fire and water to be near you.
From Linda Tressel by Trollope, Anthony
"If it was an old bodkin that was given me by one I loved, I 'd go through fire and water to get possession of it."
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
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)
