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touch (oneself)
1. euphemism To masturbate. My mother always used to say you'll go blind if you touch yourself.
2. To touch or fondle one's genitals. Get your hands out of your pants and stop touching yourself!
See also: touch
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
touch
1. n. a likely target for begging; someone who is asked for a loan. (see also soft touch.) He was just the kind of touch we were looking for, not too bright and not too poor.
2. n. a request for money (from a beggar); a request for a loan. I ignored the touch and walked on by.
3. tv. to ask someone for a loan. He touched me for a hundred bucks.
4. n. a small portion of something to eat or drink. (Folksy.) I’ll have just a touch. I’m on a diet, you know.
5. tv. to deal with or handle someone or something. (Usually in the negative.) Mr. Wilson is a real pain, and I wouldn’t touch his account. Find somebody else to handle it.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
touch
base/bases Informal To renew a line of communication: "He went out of his way to touch base with a broad cross section of ... residents" (George B. Merry).
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
- (something) could use a female touch
- (something) could use a woman's touch
- a female touch
- a light touch
- a soft touch
- a soft/an easy touch
- a touch of (something)
- a touch of the sun
- a woman's touch
- a/the magic touch
- an easy touch
- at the touch of a button
- be a nice touch
- be a soft touch
- be a soft touch for (someone or something)
- be an easy touch
- be in touch
- be in touch with (someone)
- be in touch with (something)
- be out of touch
- be out of touch with (someone or something)
- be touch and go
- be touch-and-go
- be touching cloth
- be touching cotton
- be, etc. in/out of touch
- be, keep, etc. in touch
- because you touch yourself at night
- catch (one) on the raw
- catch/touch somebody on the raw
- common touch, the
- crowning touch
- don't touch that dial
- don't waste your breath
- easy touch
- everything (one) touches turns to gold
- find (one's) touch
- finishing touch
- finishing touch(es)
- get in touch (with one)
- get in touch with (something)
- get in touch with somebody/something
- golden touch
- have (the) golden touch
- have a touch of class
- have a touch of the tar brush
- have the common touch
- have the Midas touch
- have, etc. a touch of class
- healing touch
- hit a (raw) nerve
- hit bottom
- hit/touch a nerve
- human touch
- I wouldn't touch (someone or something) with a ten-foot pole
- I wouldn't touch (something or someone) with a barge pole
- I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
- in touch
- in touch with
- in touch with (someone or something)
- in touch, be
- keep in touch
- kick (something) into touch
- kick something into touch
- knock on wood
- light the (blue) touch paper
- light the blue touch paper
- light touch
- lose contact with
- lose one's touch
- lose touch
- lose touch (with one)
- lose touch with reality
- lose touch with sanity
- lose touch/contact
- lose your touch
- magic touch
- Midas touch, the
- need a female touch
- need a woman's touch
- nice touch
- not harm/touch a hair of somebody's head
- not to touch a drop
- not touch (someone or something) with a barge pole
- not touch (someone or something) with a ten-foot pole
- not touch a drop
- not touch a hair on (one's) head
- not touch somebody/something with a bargepole
- not touch with a ten-foot pole
- out of touch
- personal touch
- put (one) in touch with (someone or something)
- put in touch with
- put on the finishing touch(es)
- put somebody in touch with somebody/something
- put the arm on
- put the bite on
- put the bite on (one)
- put the finishing touch(es) on (something)
- put the touch on (one)
- remain in touch
- remain in touch with (one)
- soft touch
- soft touch, a
- stay in touch
- stay in touch with (one)
- strike a chord
- strike a chord (with someone)
- strike/touch a chord
- the common touch
- the finishing touch
- the Midas touch
- touch
- touch (on) a sore point
- touch (on) a sore spot
- touch (on) all (the) bases
- touch (one) for (something)
- touch (one) on the raw
- touch (one's) forelock
- touch (oneself)
- touch (rock) bottom
- touch (someone's) hem
- touch (someone's) robe
- touch a (raw) nerve
- touch a chord (with someone)
- touch a nerve
- touch a sore point
- touch a sore spot
- touch all the bases
- touch and go
- touch at (some place)
- touch at some place
- touch base
- touch base (with someone)
- touch base with
- touch base with someone
- touch bottom
- touch down
- touch for
- touch of
- touch of class
- touch of the tar brush
- touch off
- touch on
- touch on (something)
- touch someone on the raw
- touch the hem of (someone's) garment
- touch the hem of (someone's) robe
- touch the surface (of something)
- touch to
- touch to (something)
- touch up
- touch upon (something)
- touch with
- touch with (something)
- touch wood
- touch your forelock
- touch/tug your forelock
- touch-and-go
- touched out
- tug (one's) forelock
- would not touch someone or something with a bargepole
- wouldn't touch it with a bargepole
- wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
- wouldn't touch someone/something with a ten-foot pole
- wouldn't touch something/someone with a barge pole
- wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole