wouldn’t touch someone or something with a ten-foot pole

wouldn’t touch someone or something with a ten-foot pole
tv. would not get involved with someone or something.
Forget it. I wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot pole.
Tom said he wouldn’t touch Tracy with a ten-foot pole.

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