set foot
English
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Verb
editset foot (third-person singular simple present sets foot, present participle setting foot, simple past and past participle set foot)
- (idiomatic, rhetorical with 'in') To enter
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet (fiction):
- Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.
- (idiomatic, rhetorical with 'on') To step onto
- After the boat capsized, I thought that I would never set foot on dry land again.
- 2009 May 13, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Up, spoken by newsreel announcer (David Kaye), Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios:
- Who would dare set foot on this inhospitable summit?
Usage notes
editNot to be confused with set on foot.
Translations
editto enter
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to step onto
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