There shall be no love lost.

The phrase “no love lost” is an idiom meaning that there is no affection between two parties—often implying mutual dislike or indifference. Read literally, it can sound as though love has been preserved (“none has been lost”), but in established usage it typically means that no love exists to be lost in the first place. Attributed to Jonson, it is sometimes treated as an early literary witness to the expression’s emergence in English, reflecting the period’s fondness for compact, proverbial turns of phrase that could be used to signal social rivalry, contempt, or cool distance.