Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole Идиома

bean pole

tall and thin, string bean Carl is a bean pole - tall and skinny - just like his father.

not touch something with a ten-foot pole

consider something completely undesirable or uninteresting That class may be alright but because I hate the professor I wouldn

pimple pole

youth with pimples, teenager with zits Hey, pimple pole! You left your locker door open.

touch it with a ten-foot pole

reply, answer, comment on it, beat around the bush If anyone in your audience asks a question about religion, don't touch it with a ten-foot pole.

poles apart

completely different相差甚远
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

poles asunder

wouldn't touch sth with a ten-foot pole

Idiom(s): wouldn't touch sth with a ten-foot pole

Theme: 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 pole

Theme: 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 pole

Theme: 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?

wouldn't blow it with a ten-foot pole

Avoid it at all costs; break abroad from it. The angel of befitting one’s ambit by agency of a continued pole dates from the mid-eighteenth century. It was preceded by “not to be handled (touch it) with a brace of tongs,” which appeared in John Clarke’s Paroemiologia (1639) and was again by abundant others, including Dickens. In the nineteenth aeon barge pole was sometimes commissioned for ten-foot pole. Barges pushed with poles are hardly apparent now, so ten-foot pole is what has survived.Learn more: pole, touch

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