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no hard feelings

Idioms  
  1. 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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As if to prove there were no hard feelings, Mr. Scorsese cast Mr. Reiner as the dad of Jordan Belfort in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025

But from the president himself on down, the folks here have been good about touching base afterward to make sure that there are no hard feelings.

From Slate • May 15, 2024

“So that’s all fine, no hard feelings and we’ll all move on.”

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024

I shooked his hand and said, “No, sir, ain’t no hard feelings atall.”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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