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set foot in

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set foot in
some place to enter into some place; to begin to enter some place. The judge ordered him never to set foot in her house again. I would never set foot in a place like that.
See also: foot, set

set foot in somewhere also set foot on somewhere
to visit or go to a place Most people who live in New York have never set foot in the Statue of Liberty, which is, of course, right in the middle of New York harbor.
See also: foot, set


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Obtaining a leave of absence, he set foot in the late summer afternoon, and soon after the rising of the full moon was walking up the gravel path leading to the dwelling in which he had been born.
Carey said that if Josiah Graves set foot in what was little better than a heathen temple he was not fit to be churchwarden in a Christian parish.
"'Stranger," she said, 'I reckon you're sure the first white that ever set foot in this valley.
 
 
 
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