not touch something with a ten foot pole

Английский Язык - Английский Язык

Определение not touch something with a ten foot pole в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

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.

Расстановка переносов

not touch some·thing with a ten foot pole

Турецкое произношение

nät tʌç sʌmthîng wîdh ı ten fût pōl

Произношение

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

Этимология

() 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.