set foot

verb — 2 senses

set foot

verb

1

Idiomatic To enter

Rhetorical with 'in'

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.1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet (fiction):

2

Idiomatic To step onto

Rhetorical with 'on'

After the boat capsized, I thought that I would never set foot on dry land again.
Who would dare set foot on this inhospitable summit?2009 May 13, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Up, spoken by newsreel announcer (David Kaye), Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios:

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