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]

---

Example Sentences

So when O'Connor broke through in 1987 with Mandinka, there's a reason, 36 years later, the lyric that's still roared the loudest is: "I don't know no shame, I feel no pain."

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2023

Those with mutations that deactivate Nav1.7 feel no pain at all.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 10, 2021

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

“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