set on foot
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set on foot (third-person singular simple present sets on foot, present participle setting on foot, simple past and past participle set on foot)
- (transitive) To originate; to put into action.
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 3:
- Meanwhile that little disappointment made her delight the more in Sir James Chettam's readiness to set on foot the desired improvements.
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Not to be confused with set foot on.
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