not do someone any favours
not do someone any favours is the alternative form of not do someone any favors.
Meaning of not do someone any favors
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
Questions about not do someone any favours
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- Not do someone any favours is the alternative form of not do someone any favors.
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