英语词汇wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. This expression may have been suggested by the 10-foot poles that river boatmen used to pole their boats along in shallow waters. Possibly the expression was first something like I wouldn’t touch that with the 10-foot pole of a riverman and that this shortened with the passing of pole boats from the American scene. However, the image first appears in the Nantucketism can’t touch him with a 10-foot, meaning “he is distant, proud, reserved.” In the sense of not wanting to get involved in a project or having a strong distaste for something, the words aren’t recorded until the late 19th century.

词汇	wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole
词源	wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. This expression may have been suggested by the 10-foot poles that river boatmen used to pole their boats along in shallow waters. Possibly the expression was first something like I wouldn’t touch that with the 10-foot pole of a riverman and that this shortened with the passing of pole boats from the American scene. However, the image first appears in the Nantucketism can’t touch him with a 10-foot, meaning “he is distant, proud, reserved.” In the sense of not wanting to get involved in a project or having a strong distaste for something, the words aren’t recorded until the late 19th century.
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