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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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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

I’ve read the dying feel no pain but sense everything that goes on around them.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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