not touch something with a ten foot pole

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von not touch something with a ten foot pole im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

To be unable (perhaps figuratively) to approach something or someone

the stock's gone up from nothin' out o' sight. You couldn't tech that stock with a ten-foot pole!.

To avoid something at all costs; to refuse to associate with something; signifies a strong aversion

Serious actors of the world wouldn't touch the part with a ten-foot pole.

Silbentrennung

not touch some·thing with a ten foot pole

Türkische aussprache

nät tʌç sʌmthîng wîdh ı ten fût pōl

Aussprache

/ˈnät ˈtəʧ ˈsəmᴛʜəɴɢ wəᴛʜ ə ˈten ˈfo͝ot ˈpōl/ /ˈnɑːt ˈtʌʧ ˈsʌmθɪŋ wɪð ə ˈtɛn ˈfʊt ˈpoʊl/

Etymologie

() This expression may have been derived by the 10-foot poles that river boatmen used to pole their boats with, along in shallow water, or from the barge poles that bargemen used to fend off wharfs and other boats.