→ not touch somebody/something with a bargepoleat touch1(12)
Examples from the Corpus
bargepole• Comparatively few sophisticatedclients will touchlicenseddealers with a bargepole.• I warned against it at the time, telling investors not to touch it with a bargepole.• And Bargepole, as you well know, is generally incapable of standing up.• Now that's what I call canvassing! Bargepole I went on a freebie last week and think I am in love again.• What is to become of you and Guttersnipe and particularly Bargepole?