Verb
(idiomatic, rhetorical with 'in') To enter
(idiomatic, rhetorical with 'on') To step onto
After the boat capsized, I thought that I would never set foot on dry land again.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. Norman Cousins
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. G. K. Chesterton
From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today. Ted Kennedy
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in. Andrew Pyper
I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28. Billy Corgan
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. Coco Chanel