a (lone) voice in the wilderness

if you are a voice in the wilderness, you are the only person expressing a particular opinion, although later other people understand that you were right.

With her passionate pleas for peace, she was a lone voice in the wilderness.

• put someone through paces
• put someone through something
• put someone through their paces
• put someone through the mill
• put someone through the wringer
• put someone to death
• put someone to shame
• put someone to sleep
• put someone to the test
• put something back on the rails
• put something back on track
• put something behind
• put something behind someone
• put something behind something
• put something behind you
• put something down to experience
• put something in a hole
• put something in motion
• put something in the shade
• put something into service
• put something on a pedestal
• put something on hold
• put something on ice
• put something on the back burner
• put something on the line