set foot

set foot
ступить ногой, ступить на землю; появиться, пойти

Nothing would induce me to set foot within that man's house. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Complete Short Stories’, ‘The rail of Edward Barnard’) — Никогда ты меня не уговоришь переступить порог его дома.

I won't set foot in that house, never again. (J. B. Priestley, ‘Festival’, part III, ch. 1) — Ноги моей больше не будет в этом доме.

Once you set foot out of Northend Park it doesn't make any difference whether it's a mile or two inches. You've disobeyed. (J. O'Hara, ‘A Rage to Live’, book III) — Стоит тебе выйти за пределы Северного парка, и уже неважно, ушла ты на милю или на два дюйма. Ты все равно ослушалась.

Pavone wound slowly about the city in and out in the strong summer sunlight and the purple French shadows that Michael had known from the paintings of Cezanne and Renoir and Pissaro long before he had ever set foot on the soil of France. (I. Shaw, ‘The Young Lions’, ch. 27) — Пейвон медленно кружил по улицам города то под палящими лучами летнего солнца, то в пурпурной тени, знакомой Майклу по картинам Сезанна, Ренуара и Писсаро еще задолго до того, как он ступил на землю Франции.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • set foot in — index enter (go in) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • set foot in — phrasal : enter * * * set foot in To enter • • • Main Entry: ↑foot * * * set foot on/in/ phrase to go to a place, especially when there is something special or unusual about you doing this set foot …   Useful english dictionary

  • set foot — {v. phr.} To step; walk; go. Used with a negative. * /She would not let him set foot across her threshold./ * /She told the boy not to set foot out of the house until he had finished supper./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • set foot — {v. phr.} To step; walk; go. Used with a negative. * /She would not let him set foot across her threshold./ * /She told the boy not to set foot out of the house until he had finished supper./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • set\ foot — v. phr. To step; walk; go. Used with a negative. She would not let him set foot across her threshold. She told the boy not to set foot out of the house until he had finished supper …   Словарь американских идиом

  • set foot on or in — idi set foot on or in, to go on or into; enter: Don t set foot in this office again![/ex] …   From formal English to slang

  • set foot — verb a) To enter 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. b) To step onto …   Wiktionary

  • set foot — walk, step, come for a visit    He hasn t set foot in this house since his mother died …   English idioms


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