weigh against someone or something
- weigh against someone or something
weigh against someone or something
Fig. to count against someone or something; [for some fact] to work against someone or something. •
I hope my many absences do not weigh against me on the final grade.
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This will weigh against you.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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