hard feelings

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Noun

hard feelings pl (plural only)

1. (idiomatic) Resentment, anger.
   • 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 31, in The Prairie:

     If you will name the price you put upon the articles, it is possible the damage may be quietly settled between us, and all hard feelings forgotten.

   • 1922, Upton Sinclair, chapter 1, in They Call Me Carpenter:

     This foreign visitor asked me how I felt about the war, and I told him that it was over, and I bore no hard feelings.

   • 2007 August 16, Tim McGirk, “The West Bank: Mission Critical”, in Time:

     The eviction itself went relatively smoothly, but the hard feelings it generated resound deep inside Israeli army barracks.

Derived terms

• no hard feelings

Translations

resentment or anger

• German: Ärger (de), Groll (de)

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• hardingfeles