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
Grzegorz	GZHE-gawsh	Polish
Shields	['ʃi:ldz]
Emidio	-	Italian
Igor	EE-gər (Russian), EE-gawr (Polish)	Russian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Manasseh	mə-NAS-ə (English)	Biblical
Noach	NO-ahkh (Dutch)	Hebrew, Dutch, Biblical Hebrew