not touch something with a ten foot pole Idiom, Proverb
bean pole
not touch something with a ten-foot pole
pimple pole
touch it with a ten-foot pole
poles apart
They were in agreement on most world issues，but they were poles apart about the war．他们对于多数世界大事意见是一致的，但对于战争的看法却截然相反。
Their opinions are poles asunder．他们的意见截然相反。
The two brothers are poles apart in character．这兄弟二人性格迥异。
poles apart/asunder
They were in agreement on most world issues，but they were poles apart about the war．他们对于多数世界大事意见是一致的，但对于战争的看法却截然相反。
Their opinions are poles asunder．他们的意见截然相反。
The two brothers are poles apart in character．这兄弟二人性格迥异。
poles asunder
They were in agreement on most world issues，but they were poles apart about the war．他们对于多数世界大事意见是一致的，但对于战争的看法却截然相反。
Their opinions are poles asunder．他们的意见截然相反。
The two brothers are poles apart in character．这兄弟二人性格迥异。
wouldn't touch sth with a ten-foot pole
Idiom(s): wouldn't touch sth with a ten-foot poleTheme: AWAKEN
would not be involved with something under any circumstances.
• I know about the piece of vacant land for sale on Maple Street. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole because there used to be a gas station there and the soil is polluted.
• I wouldn't touch that book with a ten-foot pole. It is nothing but gossip and scandal.
low man on the totem pole
Idiom(s): low man on the totem poleTheme: STATUS - LOW
the least important person.
• I was the last to find out because I'm low man on the totem pole.
• I cant be of any help. I'm low man on the totem pole.
high man on the totem pole
Idiom(s): high man on the totem poleTheme: LEADERSHIP
the person at the top of the hierarchy; the person in charge of an organization. (Informal.)
• I don’t want to talk to a secretary. I demand to talk to the high man on the totem pole.
• Who's in charge around here? Who's high man on the totem pole?
not blow (someone or something) with a ten-foot pole
To not appetite to become in any way complex in or with addition or something. Primarily heard in US. You ability anticipate John is attractive, but I wouldn't blow him with a ten-foot pole. He seems like a creep. Get that cocaine abroad from me. I wouldn't blow that being with a ten-foot pole!Learn more: not, pole, touchnot blow someone or something with a ten-foot pole
Cliché not to accept annihilation to do with addition or something. (Always negative.) No, I won't appoint Fred. I wouldn't blow him with a ten-foot pole. I wouldn't blow that job with a ten-foot pole.Learn more: not, pole, touchnot blow with a ten-foot pole
Stay far abroad from, abstain completely, as in Ronald wouldn't blow raw oysters with a ten-foot pole. This announcement dates from the mid-1700s, back it began to alter the beforehand not to be handled with a brace of tongs. In the 1800s barge-pole was sometimes commissioned for ten-foot pole, but that alternative has died out. Learn more: not, pole, touch
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hit a snag hinge on highways and byways hightail it out of somewhere highflier high-and-mighty high on high man on the totem pole high as a kite hide-and-seek hide one's light under a bushel hide one's face in shame here's to not think much of not think much of (someone or something) not think of (doing something) not think of (something) not think of something/of doing something not think twice about (something) not to be sneezed at not to be sneezed/sniffed at not to be sniffed at not to mention not to mention something not to put too fine a point on it not to say not to speak of not to touch a drop not to worry not tonight, Josephine not too bad not too hot not too shabby not touch (someone or something) with a barge pole not touch (someone or something) with a ten-foot pole not touch a drop not touch a hair on (one's) head not touch somebody/something with a bargepole not touch something with a ten-foot pole not touch with a ten-foot pole not trouble (one's) head about (someone or something) not trouble head about not trust (one) an inch not trust (someone) as far as (one) can throw (them) not trust (someone) farther than (one) can throw (them) not trust somebody an inch not trust someone as far as one can throw him/her not trust someone as far as you can throw them not trust someone as far as you could throw them not turn a hair not under any circumstance(s) not until the cows come home not up to much not up to par not up to scratch not up to scratch and not up to snuff not up to snuff not up to the mark not utter a word not want to catch (one) (doing something) not want to know not wanted on voyage not wash not what (someone or something) is cracked up to be
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