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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Example Sentences

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

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

From BBC • 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

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