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no hard feelings

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no hard feelings

 and not any hard feelings

Fig. no anger or resentment. I hope you don't have any hard feelings. No, I have no hard feelings.

See also: feeling, hard

no hard feelings

I am not angry It just didn't work out. No hard feelings. Brad said after the game that he had no hard feelings toward Sean.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the form any hard feelings (an unfriendly attitude): Does Katherine have any hard feelings toward you because of the accident?

See also: feeling, hard

no hard feelings

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.

See also: feeling, hard