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                           Phrase(s): count something against someone to regard something in a negative way against someone.  •  I’m afraid we must count this against you as an unexcused absence.  •  Don’t count that last strike against the batter.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
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                           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]
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
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                           Phrase(s): count against someone [for something] to be held against someone; [for something] to weigh against someone.  •  I hope this mistake doesn’t count against me.  •  Don’t worry, it won’t count against you at all.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs