No Love Lost Definition & Meaning

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Synonyms no love lost Idioms

1. Dislike, ill will, hate, as in There's no love lost between Bob and Bill. This term originated in the 1500s and until about 1800 could indicate either extreme love or extreme hate. The former was meant in “No love between these two was lost, each was to the other kind” (Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765). Today, however, the term signifies ill will exclusively.

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What is now clear is that there was no love lost between Johnson and Williamson, the people with the highest responsibility for children's welfare at the time of the pandemic.

From BBC

There is no love lost between Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is now known, and the British public.

From BBC

A spokesman for the former president said: “These emails prove what we’ve been saying all along—and then some: President Clinton had no knowledge of Epstein’s heinous crimes, had not spoken to him in twenty years, had never visited the island, and there was simply no love lost.”

From The Wall Street Journal

There's no love lost between him and Elon Musk but on this occasion they seem to be on the same page that the robots are on their way – and Musk certainly has the power, the influence and the cash to make it happen.

From BBC

There is evidently no love lost between the two sides.

From BBC

Related Words

• acrimony
• animosity
• animus
• antagonism
• antipathy
• bad blood
• bitterness
• enmity
• envy
• grudge
• hate
• hatred
• hostility
• loathing
• malice
• rancor
• resentment

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