not do someone any favors
not do someone any favors verb: to reflect badly on or to hurt in some way.
Verb
not do someone any favors
- To reflect badly on or to hurt in some way.
- Shame bestowed upon you for thinking in such a way as that. And still more shame on you for passing that along to your children, as well as to your children's children. You are not doing yourself any favors. You are not doing them any favors.2015, Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut, Their God/s, →ISBN
- “The Queen’s Justice” had some fantastic moments of wit and heart but the structure and pacing didn’t do it any favors. The first section of the episode mostly bounced between Jon Snow’s arrival at Dragonstone and Cersei Lannister burning through her enemies and giving nary a fuck.2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
Forms of not do someone any favors
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Questions about not do someone any favors
- What does not do someone any favors mean?
- Not do someone any favors means to reflect badly on or to hurt in some way.
- What part of speech is not do someone any favors?
- Not do someone any favors is a verb.
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