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
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.
In these bickerings it is to be feared that the way from Castellammare to Sorrento must needs go to the wall; for indeed it does not possess the grandeur of the others.
From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.
