wouldn't touch (something) with a 10-foot pole

: would not

: to bring a bodily part into contact with especially so as to perceive through the tactile sense : handle or feel gently usually with the intent to understand or appreciate

: to put hands upon in any way or degree

: to take into the hands or mouth

: the act or fact of touching

: the special sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin or mucous membrane is perceived

: a specified sensation that arises in response to stimulation of the tactile receptors : feel

: some indeterminate or unspecified thing

: some indeterminate amount more than a specified number

: a person or thing of consequence

: in some degree : somewhat

used as an intensive giving adverbial force to an adjective

: a long slender usually cylindrical object (such as a length of wood)

: a shaft which extends from the front axle of a wagon between wheelhorses and by which the wagon is drawn : tongue

: a long staff of wood, metal, or fiberglass used in the pole vault

: to act upon with a pole

: to impel or push with a pole

: to propel a boat with a pole

: either extremity of an axis of a sphere and especially of the earth's axis

: either of two related opposites

: a point of guidance or attraction

: a native or inhabitant of Poland

: a person of Polish descent