bargepole's Usage Examples:

UNIX and PC programs, whereas many of us wouldn't even touch them with a bargepole! Robert Hayden.

Waugh said would not have touched the project "with a bargepole" if he had known how it would ultimately be marketed.

Williams forthrightly told Epstein: "Don't touch them with a fucking bargepole, they will let you down.

holding up the saddle with his left hand, used his other hand to grab a bargepole and push the ferry away from the ford to safety.

Luckily, I hope people have more sense than to touch this with a bargepole.

gain interest from readers who "wouldn’t touch Horatio Hornblower with a bargepole.

early in 1958, reportedly saying "I got a play you wouldn't touch with a bargepole!" Ellis accepted it, and rehearsals had already started for a production.

investments, Shelley abruptly tells him that she 'wouldn't touch him with a bargepole'.

attract[ing] new readers who wouldn’t touch Horatio Hornblower with a bargepole.

British English American English not touch something with a bargepole not touch something with a ten-foot pole sweep under the carpet sweep under the.