Idioms
not touch somebody/something with a bargepole (British English)
(North American English not touch somebody/something with a ten-foot pole)
- (informal) to refuse to get involved with somebody/something or in a particular situation
- Personally, I wouldn’t touch him or his business with a bargepole.
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