no hard feelings in British English
If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something. He held out his large hand.
What is meant by no hard feelings?
—The phrase no hard feelings is used in speech to say that you are not upset or to ask if someone else is upset. "I'm sorry I broke our date last night." "That's OK; no hard feelings.""So, we're still friends, right?
Where did the phrase no hard feelings come from?
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.
