put one's best foot forward

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Try for the best possible impression, make a good start, as in Come on, let's put our best foot forward for this interview . The allusion in this idiom is unclear, though it may concern marching. One theory is that best foot means “the right foot,” the left being regarded as unlucky. [Late 1500s]

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