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 commit violence upon

:  the act or fact of touching

:  the act or an instance of handling or controlling a ball (as in basketball or soccer)

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

:  some indeterminate or unspecified thing

:  a person or thing of consequence

:  one having more or less the character, qualities, or nature of something different

:  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