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Meaning: (idiomatic)Mutualdislikeoranimosity.There wasno love lostbetween the two opponents.1860December –1861August,Charles Dickens, chapter XXXVIII, inGreat Expectations[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:Chapman and Hall,[…], published October 1861,→OCLC:I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there wasno love lostbetween us, that might easily be.1895,A[rthur] Conan Doyle,The Stark Munro Letters:[…], London:Longmans, Green, and Co.,→OCLC:By Crums, they might get the salts and oxalic acid mixed up if they came to treat me, for there’sno love lostbetween us.1908June,L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter XXXIV, inAnne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.:L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909 (11th printing),→OCLC:In the joy of seeing a familiar face Anne forgot that there had never been muchlove lostbetween her and Josie.1911March,Jack London,Adventure, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company,→OCLC:“My boys are practically all bushmen, while these chaps are salt-water men, and there’sno love lostbetween them. You watch the fun.”1922,Mary Roberts Rinehart,The Breaking Point[1]:He hadn't seen his brother for years, and I guess there wasno love lost.1957, Ian Fleming, chapter 22, inFrom Russia With Love:Soon they would be out of Turkey. But would Greece be any easier?No love lostbetween Greece and England.
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