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not do someone any favours en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative, idiomatic) Alternative form of not do someone any favors.
Your mother's a very smart woman. She loves nice clothes. Has she seen this jumper? Has she? You're not doing yourself any favours.
2012, Michele Hanson, What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An odyssey through 1950s suburbia, →ISBN:Anyway, her head was still killing her and the sound of Frost's tirade wasn't doing it any favours.
2014, Will Jordan, Betrayal, page 214: