"touch with a barge pole" meaning in Anglais

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Verb

  1. Prendre avec des pincettes. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: fr-touch_with_a_barge_pole-en-verb-U22ztdP0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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    "Cette locution est très souvent utilisée dans la construction « one wouldn’t touch it with a barge bole » (on ne le prendrait pas avec des pincettes)."
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