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set foot

  1. set foot in . Enter, as in I'll never set foot in this house again .

  2. set foot on . Step on, as in We were so happy to set foot on dry land . [c. 1600]



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Fences were torn down and protesters set foot on parliamentary grounds.

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But our group and this mining company that came in to set up the base camp very likely could have been the first human beings to set foot in this area.

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Mara said he was not the basketball player he expected to be almost two years ago when he first set foot on campus, even if his impact over the last few months far exceeded his season averages of 6.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in 13.1 minutes per game.

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In Europe, some ICC member states said they would arrest the Israeli leader if he set foot in their country, while others, such as Germany, announced that he would not be detained if he visited.

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Those latter respondents have presumably been anesthetized, never set foot in the real world or live in a permanent, chemically induced stupor.

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