I would not touch him with barge pole
- I would not touch him with barge pole
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мне противно было бы к нему притронуться
I was so ragged and dirty that you wouldn't have touched me with a pair of tongs. (Ch. Dickens, ‘Hard Times’, book I, ch. IV) — Я был таким грязным оборванцем, что вам противно было бы ко мне приблизиться.
I made a promise to myself at the beginning of this war that I wouldn't touch the black market with a barge pole... and I haven't. (P. H. Johnson, ‘An Avenue of Stone’, part I, ch. 4) — В начале войны я дал себе слово не связываться с черным рынком... и я это слово сдержал.
Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа»..
2006.
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