bargepole

And Bargepole, as you well know, is generally incapable of standing up.

As a consequence, hardly anyone is going to touch them with a bargepole.

He was driven off by unkind words and a bargepole.

Mr Bargepole: I am a close friend of the tax man.

I warned against it at the time, telling investors not to touch it with a bargepole.

She would not touch him with a bargepole, she said, and never would have done.

Comparatively few sophisticated clients will touch licensed dealers with a bargepole.

Yes, as I've said the net result is for companies to simply never touch anything from the Congo with a bargepole.

What is to become of you and Guttersnipe and particularly Bargepole?

I wouldn't touch its shares with a bargepole.

What is Bargepole up to?

Yet not one blogger or journalist outside of Wesmtinster as touched it with a bargepole.

Clegg's best option would seem to be not to touch the Tories with a bargepole, but let them form a government.

Kombmate security wouldn't touch me with a bargepole.

Only with a Bargepole (1971)

Don't touch it with a bargepole.'

And I bet Disney won't touch this tragic epic with a bargepole, as there's no chance in hell of a happy ending.

So remote that a bargepole is more use to a traveller than a British Rail season ticket when the London train breaks down.

Their boat had changed too, becoming something wider and flatter, and their paddle was now a crude bargepole, but he barely noticed.

Of course that's a long way off the mark, not least because there's no way City would touch Per Mertesacker with an 11-foot bargepole.

I would not even touch £30 8GB RAM with a bargepole.

Well, if you could find a qualified candidate* for office in the Labour party, that would touch the London mayoral race with a bargepole, then maybe.

However, I must say that I don't understand why some people resort to reading complete tosh they wouldn't otherwise touch with a bargepole.

Those who have been before wouldn't touch it with a bargepole and those of more tender years are almost certain to have been warned off anyway.

'Our message was: 'Don't touch this man with a bargepole'.'