go to the stake for (something)

To be willing to do anything in defense of one's beliefs. A stake is a pole to which people were once tied when being burned alive as a form of execution. These protests are dangerous—are you really ready to go to the stake for your beliefs?

go to the stake for

do anything to defend a specified belief, opinion, or person.

In the past, especially during times of religious persecution, heretics were liable to be tied to a wooden stake and burned alive if they refused to recant their beliefs.

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go to the stake
(one's) (true) stripes
(one's) true color(s)
stripe
courage of one's convictions, have the
courage of one's convictions, to have the
have the courage of (one's) convictions
have the courage of convictions
have the courage of your convictions
lack the courage of (one's) convictions

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