ten-foot pole

Make your own ten-foot pole of as straight a piece of wood as you can find.

You won't be able to touch him with a ten-foot pole after that.

I don't suppose he'd touch my Bill or my Ann Lizy with a ten-foot pole.

You may admire as much as you please; but you can't touch 'em with a ten-foot pole.

"Couldn't touch that with a ten-foot pole," said he pleasantly.

As the Yankees say, you 'wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole.'

I don't suppose he'd touch my Bill or my Ann'Lizy with a ten-foot pole.

I take a ten-foot pole, and let it cover all that comes under it.

You couldnt touch him with a ten-foot pole before the rush; the Atlantic cable wouldnt reach to him now.

My father used to carry a chain for a surveyor sometimes, and there is a ten-foot pole in the house he used to measure land with.