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no hard feelings

Idioms

No resentment or anger, as in I hope there are no hard feelings about excluding your group. This idiom uses hard in the sense of “severe” or “harsh,” a usage dating from about a.d. 1000.

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no hard feelings

And despite the grueling afternoon, there were no hard feelings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

I have no hard feelings about the price she is selling them for, but I found it odd that she felt the need to tell me about it.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

“Yeah,” he said, confessing to harboring no hard feelings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

Hartley holds no hard feelings over his England omissions since India.

From BBC ● May 27, 2025

To show there were no hard feelings, Frank called Lucy over and patted her on the head.

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon

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