not do someone any favours

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Alternative form ofnot do someone any favors.2012, Michele Hanson,What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An odyssey through 1950s suburbia,→ISBN:Your mother's a very smart woman. She loves nice clothes. Has she seen this jumper? Has she? You'renot doing yourself any favours.2014, Will Jordan,Betrayal, page214:Anyway, her head was still killing her and the sound of Frost's tiradewasn't doing it any favours.

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