Firas Waked (asker) Aug 17, 2020:

Hi, thanks for you comment. actually it is from Mercenary (2014) movie where the president's daughter being kidnapped. This is why I classified it so...regards

Karina Zidan (X) Aug 16, 2020:

I have no idiomatic input here, but imagine more context would be helpful? I know the expression is originally literary. Is it used here in a literary context? Or is it borrowed into another context (I see you stated ’government and politics’ but the nature of the source text here could vary greatly)?