go to the wall for

Example Sentences

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Mayo has been a hot head coaching candidate in the past, and Belichick is known to go to the wall for those he really wants to keep.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023

To let C. P. R. go to the wall for lack of a guarantee would have been unthinkable.

From Time Magazine Archive

They frankly could not "go to the wall" for Nixon against impeachment if he clung to his tapes.

From Time Magazine Archive

But you shall not, in the meantime, go to the wall for want of advice.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

You are really too good a business man to go to the wall for the want of a little teachableness.

From Analyzing Character by Blackford, Katherine M. H.