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Dictionary definition: LEFT FOOT unlucky
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Copyright© A Dictionary of Superstitions 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information)
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LEFT FOOT unlucky
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PETRONIUS
Satyricon
xxx (tr. Mitchell)
A slave, told off for this special duty, cried out: ‘Right foot first, gentlemen’ … we all hesitated … fearing lest one of us should cross the threshold with the wrong foot.
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ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
Homilies on Ephesians
XII (1879, 242)
‘I myself in coming out set forth with the left foot foremost:’ and this … is a token of misfortune.
1652
GAULE
Mag-astro-mances
181.
To bode good or bad luck … from lifting the left ...
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Article: I RESOLVE TO START THIS NEW YEAR ON THE RIGHT ...
The Virginian Pilot;
January 2, 2003 ;
644 words
... ... morning, is to try to put the right shoe on the right foot, which, if it's achieved, thereby pretty well assures that the left shoe will go on the left foot, which would be the right foot, would it not? You see how a body can be confused ...
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