go through fire and water

go through fire and water

From death to life, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ū s ǐ R ù sh ē ng, meaning to be saved from death. It's life and death. It comes from the inscription of dingguang Pagoda in Fuzhou, Tang Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] go through fire and water, sacrifice one's life and forget one's death, go out of one's life and go to death

Idiom usage

We should follow the prime minister and do our best for our country. "Guigong pond" by Zheng Zhenduo

The origin of Idioms

Huang Tao, Tang Dynasty, wrote in the inscription of the pagoda of Ding Guang, Fuzhou, Tang Dynasty: "if you are a great hero, you can go from death to life; if you are a sincere God, you can move the world and the earth."