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do more harm than good |
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do more harm than good to be damaging rather than helpful. Giving children too much freedom often does more harm than good. Usage notes: usually said about things that are intended to be helpful but do not have a good result |
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At first, he could give no encourage- ment; with unfeigned diffidence, he expressed his conviction that he was not adequate to the perform- ance of so great a task; the path marked out was wholly an untrodden one; he was sincerely appre- hensive that he should do more harm than good. I must not ask him, for fear I shall do more harm than good, but I must somehow learn the facts of his journey abroad. |
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