help matters

idiom

: to make a situation better

—usually used in negative statements

It didn't exactly help matters when he accused her of lying!

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While the exact cause of the fire remains under investigation, the canyon’s thick vegetation and difficult topography didn’t help matters. —

Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024 The amount of back-to-backs teams (still) have to deal with doesn’t help matters, either. —

Shane Young, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 The past year’s federal financial aid debacle probably didn’t help matters, with months of delays and processing errors scrambling students’ enrollment plans and causing some administrators to raise alarms about incoming classes with fewer aid recipients and less ethnic diversity. —

Alexandra Byrne, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2024 The film’s leisurely pace, its large company of broad and one-dimensional supporting players, and an unshakably saccharine tone don’t help matters at all. —

Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for help matters