query: Historical or literary examples of misguided or botched attempts to help that end up causing harm
positive_passages.docid: 109979
positive_passages.text: Expression for "intend to help but instead making things worse"
negative_passages.docid: 123040
negative_passages.text: Mistaking versus mistaken
negative_passages.docid: 10096
negative_passages.text: Dealing with questions of nefarious intent
negative_passages.docid: 10739
negative_passages.text: What's an idiom for doing something in an unnecessarily complicated way?
negative_passages.docid: 5620
negative_passages.text: How to react to your work being cited incorrectly or in a misleading way?
negative_passages.docid: 134232
negative_passages.text: Word for obscuring bad or immoral acts with verbiage
negative_passages.docid: 93999
negative_passages.text: Is there a term for when just by saying that something is broken and showing it to someone fixes the issue?
negative_passages.docid: 43806
negative_passages.text: Lots of not-always-useful but well-intentioned answers
negative_passages.docid: 3395
negative_passages.text: A synonym for "moral hypocrite"
negative_passages.docid: 156715
negative_passages.text: Idioms for saying when one's bad situation compounded with more problems
negative_passages.docid: 39694
negative_passages.text: When something that was supposed to be fun became not fun
negative_passages.docid: 133463
negative_passages.text: Impractical jokers ever gotten into serious trouble?
negative_passages.docid: 29468
negative_passages.text: Is there a word (or phrase) that describe a series of mishaps/misfortunes in one's life?
negative_passages.docid: 67593
negative_passages.text: request: bragging & boasting but all made up of lies
negative_passages.docid: 96338
negative_passages.text: Saying for using an overly powerful tool to fix a minor problem
negative_passages.docid: 22826
negative_passages.text: What would you call someone who imposes on other people's generosity?
negative_passages.docid: 8941
negative_passages.text: Can I thank websites that host illegal book downloads in the acknowledgements section of my thesis?