Brewer's: Go through Fire and Water to serve you

Do anything even at personal cost and inconvenience. The reference is to the ancient ordeals by fire and water. Those condemned to these ordeals might employ a substitute.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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