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The moment courage outvotes comfort and your feet sign the contract.
means The act of beginning a journey or undertaking, especially the deliberate moment of departure toward a destination or goal.
from A pairing of two old workhorses of English. 'Set' comes from Old English 'settan,' to cause to sit or place, and 'out' from 'ut,' meaning away or beyond. To 'set out' is literally to place yourself outward — to put your body and intentions onto the road. The phrasal verb has long carried both the literal sense of starting a trip and the figurative one of embarking on any venture, the two meanings traveling together the way 'departure' shadows 'plan.'
- origin
- Old English settan, to place, plus a road
- first step
- Trips begin before the suitcase is zipped
- psychology
- Anticipation often beats arrival for happiness
- naval term
- Ships set out; only the lost set adrift