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 am certain that Mrs. Crabtree is devotedly fond of my children, and would go through fire and water to serve them; but she is a little severe perhaps.

From Holiday House A Series of Tales by Sinclair, Catherine

Old Zenza's eyes sparkled, while she said: "If the gracious princess should ever want any one who'd go through fire and water to serve her, she need only think of Zenza and Thomas."

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold

She did not announce her secret determination to go through fire and water, if necessary, rather than submit to the plan of her relatives.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Walworth, Ellen H.