tell against somebody

All this tells against me in your mind, I know.

I am afraid that my age is going to tell against me as well.

Big enough to tell at a distance, they number in all 85, as against our familiar 26.

Even if it seems to tell against him, go on.

"And is there some one reason they tell against me most of all?"

"He told you all about his moral stand against the hurricane?"

He's 26 or 27 now and that final year of waiting to qualify could tell against him.

Aren't people told the nature of the charges against them?

Here, his international background told against him, but eventually, in the summer of 1932, he was accepted.

Anyhow, after 14 Ke2, the bad position of his king told against him.