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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

Hunter said he believed Suzuki would do well in the position and had no hard feelings about the process.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

He says there are no hard feelings towards the rest of the cast but he admits he did feel isolated during those moments.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 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

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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