it wouldn't do any harm

Meaning

1. it wouldn't do sb any harm (to do sth)

   used to suggest that it would be a good idea for sb to do sth

   It wouldn't do you any harm to smarten yourself up.

In the movies · 2

• Well, I suppose it wouldn't do any harm.Mary Poppins Returns2018
• It will help him, and it certainly wouldn't do you any harm either...M*A*S*H1970

Learn it in full scenes

• M*A*S*H1970
  • Hawkeye and Duke Report for Duty
  • Mulcahy Teaches Ho-Jon to Read
  • Hawkeye and Duke Want the Chaplain Out

From the same entry

• no harm done
• out of harm's way
• there is no harm in doing
• not harm a fly
• not harm a hair of head