not touch with a bargepole

Meaning

1. not touch sb / sth with a bargepole

   to refuse to get involved with sb / sth or in a particular situation

From the same entry

• be touched with
• touch base
• touch bottom
• touch wood
• strike a chord
• touch your forelock
• not harm a hair of head
• hit a nerve
• catch on the raw
• touch down
• touch for
• touch off