feel no pain

Idioms  

1. Be intoxicated, as in After six beers he was feeling no pain. This expression alludes to being oblivious to pain because of the consumption of a large amount of liquor. [Slang; mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

I don’t mean to be arguing that music is too pure a joy to be quantified, when it hits you, you feel no pain, blah blah.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2020

Or do they think they feel no pain, as they used to think about dogs?

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2018

“I am 100 percent ready for this weekend. I almost feel no pain anymore,” Goffin said during Thursday’s draw.

From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2017

As Bob Marley sang in his 1973 hit Trenchtown Rock: "One good thing about music/ When it hits you feel no pain."

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2012

“My momma got sick. She died real fast. She didn’t feel no pain or no suffering.”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis