not do someone any favors

verb

To reflect badly on or to hurt in some way.

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Meanings

verb

alternative not do someone any favours

  1. idiomaticTo reflect badly on or to hurt in some way.

    I wasn't doing myself any favors with thoughts like that.

    2017, Jasmine, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    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, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2017
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APA

not do someone any favors. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20do%20someone%20any%20favors

MLA

“not do someone any favors.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20do%20someone%20any%20favors. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “not do someone any favors,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20do%20someone%20any%20favors.

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