![]() ![]() But there's no great love lost 'twixt them and mee, We keepe asunder and so best agree. ![]() They love me not, which makes 'em quickly spend me. The love that is expressed isn't wasted or 'lost' as it is returned by the other.Īn early example of the first form is found in a publication by the English author John Taylor - Travel of a Twelve-pence, 1622: 'I love my partner and my partner loves me'. No love is lost because there was none there to begin with.Ģ. 'I don't like that person and he/she doesn't like me'. 'No love lost' is an unusual expression in that it has had two contradictory meanings, which are:ġ. What's the origin of the phrase 'No love lost'? When someone refers to someone else and says 'there's no love lost' it means 'I'm not going to waste any love on him/her'. 'There's no love lost between them' is used to describe a relationship between two people who dislike each each. ![]() Conflict and crime What's the meaning of the phrase 'No love lost'?. ![]()
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