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词汇 wouldn-t-touch-with-a-bargepole-barge-pole
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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

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abjuration
abjure
abnegate
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bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
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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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