not touch something or someone with a bargepole Definition
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bargepole
noun
- bargepoles
1. A long pole used to move or guide a barge.
- colloq
To refuse to have anything to do with it or them.
- Example: That job sounds terrible ― I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole
