touch with

touch with (something)

1. To bring something into light contact with someone or something. A noun or pronoun is used between "touch" and "with." He touched the electric fence with his bare hand and got an awful shock from it. A: "Here, let me wipe that muck off your face." B: "Blech! Please don't touch me with that disgusting handkerchief!"
2. To affect someone at a deep, emotional level with some action, performance, words, etc. A noun or pronoun is used between "touch" and "with." You really touched me with your kind words at the ceremony today. She was touched with the way the community rallied around her during the crisis.
See also: touch
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

touch someone or something with something

to bring something into contact with someone or something. Don't touch me with that filthy stick! I touched the snake with a stick to make sure it was dead. Wherever he touched himself with the leaf, his skin blistered.
See also: touch
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • add in
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • all right
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
  • accompany
References in classic literature
The many hours he was not with Ruth he devoted to the "Love-cycle," to reading at home, or to the public reading-rooms, where he got more closely in touch with the magazines of the day and the nature of their policy and content.
Martin Eden
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, for example, is quite certain a new iPod Touch with an upgraded processor will be (https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/new-ipod-touch-3691144/) introduced this 2019.
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Given this notoriety, it is not surprising that professionals broach the topic of touch with trepidation.
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Losing touch in social work practice
Also, Kindle Touch 3G offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch with the added convenience of free 3G.
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"Whether you're listening to music, playing games, making FaceTime video calls, browsing the web, capturing HD video or watching TV shows and movies, the new iPod touch with its Retina display, A4 chip and 3-axis gyro is more fun than ever."
Apple's new holiday lineup includes a brand new iPod shuffleA ; the amazing new iPod nanoA with Multi-Touchao; the incredible new iPod touch with Retina display, Apple's A4 chip, FaceTime, HD video recording and Game Center; and the iPod classicA in a 160GB model.
Apple Introduces New iPod touch
Keeping in touch with friends has never been easier as the LG KP500 has the latest UI that allows the user to attach a friend's photo for the speed dial feature and then page through the portraits and touch the friend to be called.
Full Touch Screen Handsets are No Longer Untouchable with LG
If you want "Touch" to mean "touch with your nose," then you might use "Foot" to mean "touch with a paw.
Right on target: this seemingly frivolous behavior has numerous practical applications
As the voice of the people, my team and I serve Knight's and the co-presidents' need for touch, to be in touch with what's going on, and to touch the employees.
Vary your voice: Nike's resident "Katalyst" is helping employees at all levels to embrace the company's vision, and in turn extend the brand. (Cover Story)
In our spiritual lives the same dynamic is at work: the need to keep in touch with God.
I write simply to suggest that we need some devotional practices to keep us in touch with our God in between the celebrations of our sacramental life.
Does the Angelus ring a bell?
Clinicians are reporting excellent results in using the therapeutic touch with the elderly to promote sleep, to enhance feelings of well being with the depressed elderly, to decrease blood pressure, to decrease edema, and to facilitate healing.
The elderly require a "special touch": touching expresses caring, and the quality of care improves