front foot

Stylistically, he was on the front foot—aggressive, prepared, and engaged.

It puts the administration on the front foot with a “plan” to restore fiscal sanity once the economy has recovered.

His front foot dug in the sod, his eyes were red, and between his grumbles his breath came in puffs and snorts of anger.

And that was the way it is said frogs came to have five toes on each of their hind feet and only four toes on each front foot.

After a while he addressed the off front foot of the black mare.

Like the dog, he had hanging at the inner side of his front foot a little useless toe.

The fifth toe, which in the earliest horse hung upon the side of the front foot, has completely disappeared.