set foot

English

Alternative forms

step foot

Pronunciation

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Verb

set 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, Moonfleet Chapter 4
  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.

Translations

to enter

French: mettre les pieds (fr), mettre le pied (fr), poser le pied, poser les pieds

Spanish: poner el pie

to step onto

French: poser le pied, poser les pieds

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