wouldn't touch sth with a barge pole
UK US wouldn't touch sth with a ten-foot pole informalused to mean that you certainly do not want to buy something or be involved with something
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Abstaining and refraining
- abstain
- abstemious
- abstention
- abstinence
- back off
- fast
- forborne
- give
- give (sth) up
- give up sth
- hors de combat
- keep
- keep (sb/sth) out of sth
- refrain
- step
- step back
- stop
- stop short of sth idiom
- swear off sth
- touch
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