Brewer's: Right Foot Foremost

In Rome a boy was stationed at the door of a mansion to caution visitors not to cross the threshold with their left foot, which would have been an ill omen.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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