wouldnt touch something with a ten-foot pole

sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a ten-foot pole

idiom US informal (also sb will not touch someone/something with a ten-foot pole); (mainly UK informal sb wouldn't touch something with a bargepole)

someone does not want a particular thing or person at all, or does not want to have anything at all to do with it or them:

If you're not successful, they won't touch you with a ten-foot pole.
How could she make him see she wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole?
If any attorney had asked me about the case I would have told them to stay away from that with a ten-foot pole.
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(Definition of sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a ten-foot pole from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)