Usually means: Causes more problems than solutions.
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  1. do more harm than good: Merriam-Webster
  2. do more harm than good: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. do more harm than good: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. do more harm than good: Wiktionary

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  1. do more harm than good: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (do more harm than good)

verb:  To make a situation worse, usually while trying to make it better.

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