| 单词 | i wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI wouldn't touch it (also him, her, etc.) with a ten-foot (also forty-foot) pole P2. Originally U.S. I wouldn't touch it (also him, her, etc.) with a ten-foot (also forty-foot) pole: I refuse to have anything to do with (a person or thing). Cf. I wouldn't touch him (or it) with (the end of) a bargepole at bargepole n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > have nothing to do with to avoid (also shun, etc.) like the plague1699 to steer clear of1723 I wouldn't touch it (also him, her, etc.) with a ten-foot (also forty-foot) pole1838 to have no truck with1866 to leave or let severely alone1880 I wouldn't touch him (or it) with (the end of) a bargepole1890 ice1932 1838 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 19 June She was jest as good as mine, till you com a goin arter her, and now I can't touch her with a forty foot pole. 1843 Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) 5 Oct. Senator Lahm, and Representatives Kilgore and Martin,..would not touch it [sc. a piece of legislation] with a ten foot pole. They knew it would not work. 1864 R. Morris Banks of New York 31 Wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Bad line. 1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life 22 The young feller he used to come sometimes an' just shake hands with her, but otherways he wouldn't touch her with a forty-foot pole. 1958 E. O. Schlunke Village Hampden 26 Attracting a lot of business of the more or less shady sort that our reputable men wouldn't touch with a forty-foot pole. 1991 ‘W. Trevor’ My House in Umbria in Two Lives (1992) x. 337 It was then that Mrs Chubbs conveniently turned up her toes, and after that the other lady wouldn't touch him with a pole. < as lemmas |
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