wouldn’t touch someone/something with a ten-foot p

wouldn’t touch someone/something with a ten-foot pole

tv. would not get involved with someone or something. Forget it. I wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot pole.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Flemming	FLEM-ming	Danish
Jakab	-	Hungarian
Robertina	-	Italian, Spanish
Carey	KER-ee	Irish, English
Binyamin	bee-nyah-MEEN (Jewish)	Hebrew, Arabic, Biblical Hebrew
Cleopatra	klee-ə-PAT-rə (English)	Ancient Greek (Latinized)