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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.