| 词组 | go to the stake |
| 释义 | Idiom go to the stake mainly British if you say you would go to the stake for a belief or principle, you mean you would risk anything in order to defend it.She believed passionately that the government were wrong on this issue and was prepared to go to the stake for her views. go to the stakeTo be willing to do anything in defense of one's beliefs. These protests are dangerous—are you really ready to go to the stake for your beliefs? go to the stakemainly BRITISH, OLD-FASHIONEDIf you say that you would go to the stake to defend a principle or aim, you mean that you believe in it completely and would do anything to prove it. It's certainly not a cause that I would go to the stake for. Note: A stake is a wooden post. In the past, people were sometimes tied to a stake and burned alive for refusing to give up beliefs which the church considered heretical and wrong. |
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