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Phrase(s): wouldn’t touch someone or something with a ten-foot pole Cliché would not be involved with something under any circumstances. • I know about the piece of vacant land for sale on Maple Street. I wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot pole because there used to be a gas station there and the soil is polluted. • Tom said he wouldn’t touch Sally with a tenfoot pole.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs