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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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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

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

But there are no hard feelings between the “Girl in a Country Song” singers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 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

I even look over at them to smile – show them there’s no hard feelings about everything – but they’re too busy looking down at each other’s phones to notice.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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