IDIOM

To follow the dictates of someone

To conform to others standard

To steal something valuable

To take him as a model

To work hard

To fight vigorously

To make a rude gesture

To surrender

To discourage a person

To incite a person to fight

To rouse one to do one's best

To ruin somebody

To keep captive and demand concession

To offer bribe

To blackmail and extract money

To humiliate

To fling ironical remarks

To do something remarkable

To try to do the impossible

To burn something to ashes