(informal) to get one's butt somewhere

(formal, literary) to beat one's breast, to admit one's guilt, to acknowledge one's faults and wrongs, to make one's mea culpa

(figuratively) to save one's skin, to save one's bacon

(figuratively, transitive with à) to give one's word, to promise (to someone)

(figuratively) to risk one's neck, to risk life and limb

under one's breath

to travel around, to rove about, to travel the world

to find one's path in life

to start a new life

(figuratively) to bear one's cross, to carry one's cross