not touch something with a ten foot pole

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İngilizce - İngilizce
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.

not touch something with a ten foot pole

    Heceleme

    not touch some·thing with a ten foot pole

    Türkçe nasıl söylenir

    nät tʌç sʌmthîng wîdh ı ten fût pōl

    Telaffuz

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

    Etimoloji

    () 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.