| 词汇 | not touch with a barge pole |
| 释义 | (redirected from not touch with a barge pole)not touch (someone or something) with a barge poleTo not want to become in any way involved in or with something or someone. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Ever since the tax scandal in our last company, employers won't touch us with a barge pole. Get that cocaine away from me, I wouldn't touch that with a barge pole! wouldn't touch something/someone with a barge poleBRITISH orwouldn't touch something/someone with a ten-foot poleAMERICANIf you say that you wouldn't touch something or someone with a barge pole, you mean that you do not want to have anything to do with them. The history of the building kept the price down. No one would touch it with a barge pole. A woman like that wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole. Note: A barge pole is a very long pole that is used to move a barge (= a long, flat boat) forward. would not touch someone or something with a bargepoleused to express an emphatic refusal to have anything to do with someone or something. informalA bargepole is used to propel a barge and to fend off obstacles. The equivalent US expression substitutes a ten-foot pole . not touch somebody/something with a ˈbargepole(British English) (American English not touch somebody/something with a ten-foot ˈpole) (informal) refuse to get involved with somebody/something or in a particular situation: I don’t know why she’s marrying that man. I wouldn’t touch him with a bargepole.I wouldn’t touch the job with a ten-foot pole.A barge is a large boat with a flat bottom which is sometimes moved using a very long pole. |
| 随便看 |
|
青年旅行网英语在线翻译词典收录了440382条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。