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barge
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I wouldn't touch someone/something with a barge pole. (British & Australian, informal, American & Australian, informal)
something that you say which means that you think someone or something is so bad that you do not want to be involved with them in any way. If I were you, I wouldn't touch that property with a barge pole.
See also: pole, touch, wouldn't

barge in
to enter a room suddenly and unexpectedly. How can you barge in here like this and start shouting insults at me!


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While Cynthia Brandon, the mom, waited in the car, Mike Lugo, her son, went up to the targeted house, "snapped the lock on the homeowner's screen door and barged in as the woman retreated to the backyard, gun in hand.
The 29-year-old suspect, whose wounds were not life-threatening, snapped the lock on the homeowner's screen door and barged in as the woman retreated to the backyard, gun in hand, according to a sheriff's report.
This allows for biodiesel to be barged down river for export or up river to domestic destinations.
 
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