1
                           general:: 
                            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