See tell against on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 27, in Pink and White Tyranny:",
"text": "[S]ome people . . . have been so short-sighted and reckless as to clamor for an easy dissolution of the marriage-contract. . . . Is it possible that they do not see that this is a liberty which, once granted, would always tell against the weaker sex?",
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"ref": "1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 34, in The Way of All Flesh:",
"text": "Ernest's want of muscular strength did not tell against him here.",
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"ref": "2003 June 23, First Chapter: Auto da Fay by Fay Weldon, New York Times",
"text": "[H]ard as he worked, his age was beginning to tell against him."
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"To function as a liability (for someone); to put into a condition of disadvantage."
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To function as a liability (for someone); to put into a condition of disadvantage."
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"ref": "1892, George Gissing, chapter 2, in Born In Exile:",
"text": "She knew he was disposed to catch at anything that seemed to tell against Godwin's claims.",
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"ref": "1905, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes:",
"text": "\"Such a fact must tell against the theory.\"",
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{
"ref": "2002 Oct. 1, John Grimshaw, Clue Challenge: BOLE, The Times (UK)",
"text": "[T]he comma tells against this reading."
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"To serve as evidence which casts doubt upon."
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To serve as evidence which casts doubt upon."
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"ref": "1905, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes:",
"text": "\"Such a fact must tell against the theory.\"",
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"ref": "2002 Oct. 1, John Grimshaw, Clue Challenge: BOLE, The Times (UK)",
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"sense": "function as a liability",
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"word": "disadvantage"
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"sense": "serve as evidence which casts doubt upon",
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],
"word": "tell against"
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