BARGE POLE


Meaning of BARGE POLE in English

also bargepole

If you say that you wouldn’t touch something with a barge pole , you mean that you would not want to have anything to do with it, either because you do not trust it, or because you do not like it. ( BRIT INFORMAL; in AM, use wouldn’t touch something with a ten-foot pole )

PHRASE : V inflects

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