Brewer's: Pitch

Touch pitch, and you will be defiled. “The finger that touches rougs will be red.” “Evil communications corrupt good manners” “A rotten apple injures its companions.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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