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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no hard feelings

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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

He’d acted like he had no hard feelings about the Super Soaker incident, was all smiles when he fell in beside me, promising to turn me into the biggest thing to ever hit town.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx