hard feelings
/ˌhɑːd ˈfiːlɪŋz
/ [usually with negative] Feelings of resentment: there are no hard feelings and we wish him well...
- Fortunately there are absolutely no hard feelings.
- Sarah had firm ideas of what the garden should be like and challenged Matt over one or two of his ideas, forcing him to the return to the drawing board, but she insisted there were no hard feelings.
- It was just a short letter telling me there were no hard feelings, that he had nothing against me off the field and that what happened on the field was one thing and what happened off it was another.
Synonyms
resentment, animosity, ill feeling, ill feelings, ill will, bitterness, bad blood, resentfulness, rancour, malice, acrimony, antagonism, antipathy, animus, friction, anger, hostility, hate, hatred
See parent entry: hard
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