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Meanings of spoil things in English

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Usage of spoil things in English
1
Only, you know people very often spoil things by pottering over them.
Unleavened Bread
2
I don't think that we want to spoil things for people.
The new yorker
3
Why did he go out of his way to spoil things?
Brave New World
4
But it is a pity you spoil things by being so-unfriendly.
The Keeper of the Door
5
Of course Sara had to do her best to spoil things.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
6
You shouldn't let people spoil things for you in that way.
The Farringdons
7
The lodgings were rather horrible, though even they couldn't spoil things for me.
Secret Bread
8
Does it spoil things for you, Una, to know that I love you?
The Heart of Una Sackville
9
Do you think I'd spoil things for her, now that she's made good?
From the Housetops
10
Sorry to spoil things by interrupting you in this way.
The Great Amulet
11
It's just the few that spoil things for the many.
Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz
12
But it seemed a shame to spoil things just as they were getting interesting.
Bab: A Sub-Deb
13
We are making no time and we may spoil things.
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail
14
I had a great mind to go with her and spoil things, after all.
Mary Gray
15
And I'm afraid he's lost his head, and will be imprudent and spoil things.
The Reef
16
We don't want to spoil things by any premature attack.
The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common