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count against
verb
- intr, preposition to have influence to the disadvantage of
your bad timekeeping will count against you
Idioms and Phrases
Be disadvantageous to, as in His earnings this year will count against his Social Security benefits . This idiom uses count in the sense of “make a reckoning,” in this case negative. [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
The fact that he had achieved a national fame did not count against other considerations.
This was the first count against the De Witts--their objection to a Stadtholder.
Her refusal to marry had so embittered the count against her that he could scarcely endure to have her in his presence.
Frankly, neither do I, and yet one cannot let a mans appearance count against him.
It would count against me that I had sewn my money in the lining.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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