"not do someone any favors" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2015, Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut, Their God/s, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Shame bestowed upon you for thinking in such a way as that. And still more shame on you for passing that along to your children, as well as to your children's children. You are not doing yourself any favors. You are not doing them any favors.",
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          "text": "“The Queen’s Justice” had some fantastic moments of wit and heart but the structure and pacing didn’t do it any favors. The first section of the episode mostly bounced between Jon Snow’s arrival at Dragonstone and Cersei Lannister burning through her enemies and giving nary a fuck.",
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          "text": "I wasn't doing myself any favors with thoughts like that.",
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        "To reflect badly on or to hurt in some way."
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        "(idiomatic) To reflect badly on or to hurt in some way."
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