(deyim) Consider something completely undesirable or uninteresting. "Some people won't touch spinach with a ten-foot pole."; "Kids who wouldn't touch an encyclopedia with a ten-foot pole love to find information with this computer program."
prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled
Either of two North American impatiens, also known as jewelweed or snapweed, growing in moist areas. Impatiens capensis, also called I. biflora, typically has crimson-spotted orange flowers; I. pallida has yellow to white flowers, sometimes spotted with brownish-red. They are common weeds native to extensive regions of eastern North America. Their juice is said to be a remedy for poison-ivy rashes