Show from the roman put your right foot foremost is ia a piece of advice that bas baa been offered to anost folk foil young and old in the course ot their lives it is generally equivalent lent t to baying lowb your cliance chance do your very best and show what you are capable of like a great many common phrases this thia expression has an old origin in the days of ancient rome roma when people were usually the slaves of some superstition or other it was thought to be unlucky to cross the threshold of a 1 onse with the left foot first ly 1 boy was at the door of the mansion to remind vis via igors that they were to put their right foot foremost thra the ute uie of the phrase in ia the wider sense soon became obvious US lewiston Lewi stoa journal |