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sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge pole
idiommainly UKinformal(alsosb refuses to touch something/someone with a bargepole, sb will not touch someone/something with a bargepole); (USinformalsb wouldn't touch something with a ten-foot pole)
someone does not want a particular thing or person at all, or does not want to have anything at all to do with it or them:
Don't tell granny we made the cake or she's not going to touch it with a bargepole.
If they offered me compensation I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
I warned investors not to touch the company with a barge pole.
She said she wouldn't touch him with a bargepole and never would have done.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abjure
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
tear
wash your hands of somethingidiom
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom
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