lay down your life

Meaning

1. lay down your life (for sb / sth)

   to die in order to save sb / sth

In the movies · 4

• and again I lay down my life at your feet Cosette, your father is a saint!Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• and am willing to lay down my life and the lives of my men, especially you, Reiben, to ease her suffering.Saving Private Ryan1998

From the same entry

• be life
• bring to life
• come to life
• for dear life
• for the life of you
• frighten the life out of
• full of beans
• get a life
• lead the life of Riley
• life after death
• the life and soul of the party
• life is cheap