be to somebody's disadvantage , auch: work to somebody's disadvantage

The problem, he said, is that this arrangement often works to the seller's disadvantage.

Sometimes this works to her disadvantage, when the powerful story she has to tell requires a more objective view of the scene.

"It looks like that worked to the Chiefs' disadvantage today."

This could work to their disadvantage for certain types of benchmarking situations.

But that innocence worked to her disadvantage in other ways.

Further, the ease of information transmission today can also work to our disadvantage.

That can work to a woman's disadvantage, she said, since a man may interpret this playing down of expertise as insecurity.

Were we not, in fact, working there to our own disadvantage?

In the thick dark of the basement, there was just enough illumination to work to my disadvantage.

"And second, that it works to their disadvantage in a career context."