"step foot" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently a blending of step with set foot.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "steps foot",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepping foot",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped foot",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped foot",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "step foot (third-person singular simple present steps foot, present participle stepping foot, simple past and past participle stepped foot)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English eggcorns",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1813, Washington Irving, “Sketches of an Excursion from Edinburgh to Dublin”, in The Analectic magazine, page 480:",
          "text": "This was a pleasure of no small kind; and in stepping foot again upon the soil of that country, which contains much that I prize, and more that I admire",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature: international journal of science, volume 6, page 509:",
          "text": "All the dukes and princes that ever stepped foot in America, never deserved a tenth part of the attention which is due to Prof. Agassiz.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, The country of the pointed firs, page 105:",
          "text": "She never stepped foot on the mainland again long as she lived.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Deborah P. Britzman, After-education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and psychoanalytic histories of learning, page 134:",
          "text": "\"Well,\" the person responded, pointing to each building in turn: \"This one I usually go to, this one I sometimes go to, and this one I would never step foot in.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard Dry, Leaving, page 114:",
          "text": "It was a week after the funeral before Lida stepped foot in the house again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jay Emerson Johnson, Dancing With God: Anglican Christianity And The Practice Of Hope, page 49:",
          "text": "Imagine stepping foot on a dance floor after studying and practicing the steps for a waltz and the band strikes up the music for a rumba",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Steven Sanders with Aeon J. Skoble, The philosophy of TV noir, page 79:",
          "text": "Charles is arrested at the airport the moment he steps foot on British soil.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Eggcorn of set foot."
      ],
      "id": "en-step_foot-en-verb-~k323fd2",
      "links": [
        [
          "Eggcorn",
          "eggcorn"
        ],
        [
          "set foot",
          "set foot#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard, proscribed) Eggcorn of set foot."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard",
        "proscribed"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "step foot"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently a blending of step with set foot.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "steps foot",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepping foot",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped foot",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped foot",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "step foot (third-person singular simple present steps foot, present participle stepping foot, simple past and past participle stepped foot)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English eggcorns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English proscribed terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1813, Washington Irving, “Sketches of an Excursion from Edinburgh to Dublin”, in The Analectic magazine, page 480:",
          "text": "This was a pleasure of no small kind; and in stepping foot again upon the soil of that country, which contains much that I prize, and more that I admire",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature: international journal of science, volume 6, page 509:",
          "text": "All the dukes and princes that ever stepped foot in America, never deserved a tenth part of the attention which is due to Prof. Agassiz.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, The country of the pointed firs, page 105:",
          "text": "She never stepped foot on the mainland again long as she lived.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Deborah P. Britzman, After-education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and psychoanalytic histories of learning, page 134:",
          "text": "\"Well,\" the person responded, pointing to each building in turn: \"This one I usually go to, this one I sometimes go to, and this one I would never step foot in.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard Dry, Leaving, page 114:",
          "text": "It was a week after the funeral before Lida stepped foot in the house again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Jay Emerson Johnson, Dancing With God: Anglican Christianity And The Practice Of Hope, page 49:",
          "text": "Imagine stepping foot on a dance floor after studying and practicing the steps for a waltz and the band strikes up the music for a rumba",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Steven Sanders with Aeon J. Skoble, The philosophy of TV noir, page 79:",
          "text": "Charles is arrested at the airport the moment he steps foot on British soil.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Eggcorn of set foot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Eggcorn",
          "eggcorn"
        ],
        [
          "set foot",
          "set foot#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard, proscribed) Eggcorn of set foot."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard",
        "proscribed"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "step foot"
}