water-ordeal
/ˈwɔːtə(r)ɔːˌdiːl/noun
A practice in which an accused person is subjected to a trial by water, usually involving physical pain or danger, overcoming of which is taken as divine proof of innocence. Also: a test of this sort; something which decides guilt or innocence. Compare ordeal, fire ordeal. Now historical.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in Laws: Blaseras. From water + ordeal.
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on
- get (or have) the jump on someone
- get (or have) the worst of it
- get (or keep) one's eye in
- get (or keep) one's hand in
- get (or keep) the show on the road
- get (or lay)one's hands on
- get (or pull) one's finger out
- get (or put) someone's back up
- get (or receive) one's just deserts
- get (or sink) one's teeth into
- get (or start) off on the right (or wrong) foot
- get (or stick) the knife into (or in) someone
- get (or take) a rise out of
- get (or take or have) the bit between (or in) one's teeth
- get (or take or have) the measure of
- get out
- get out of
- get out of bed on the wrong side (or get up on the wrong side of the bed)
- (get) out of my sight!
- get out of someone's face
- get outside of