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

She also said that she has no hard feelings toward Hartley and does not blame her for the season-ending injury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

The other woman contacted Kelley and apologised, but there's no hard feelings.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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