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
"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
Yet he was a faithful fellow, and would any day go through fire and water to oblige us.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
He wanted her, and he would go through fire and water to make her his wife.
From The Rustle of Silk by Hamilton, Cosmo
