put one foot in front of the other

English

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Verb

put one foot in front of the other (third-person singular simple present puts one foot in front of the other, present participle putting one foot in front of the other, simple past and past participle put one foot in front of the other)

1. To walk, decomposed, to stress the fundamentality of the task.
2. (idiomatic) To move forward, progress steadily.

See also

• one step at a time