go to the stake for (something)

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?

See also: go, stake

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.

See also: go, stake