not do sb any favours
to do something that is likely to have a bad effect on you or on another person:
You're not well, and you're not doing yourself any favours by taking on extra work.
[ by + -ing verb ] The government isn't doing the families of the victims any favours by hiding the truth about what really happened.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dangerous and harmful
- adverse
- apocalyptic
- biohazard
- damaging
- deleterious
- do more harm than good idiom
- favour
- forbidding
- gnarly
- harm
- harmful
- kiss
- negative
- penal
- pernicious
- rogue
- ruinous
- self-destruct
- stinking thinking
- toxic
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