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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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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

But Sushkevych said that once at the starting line for his biathlon event, Lukianenko turned a switch in his mind, vowing to feel no pain or fatigue on the course, and he finished first in what is surely his last Paralympic Games.

From New York Times

Trying to convince your amateur friend that you feel no pain will not discourage her, so it is time to make her the sole custodian of a secret: “Thank you for your concern. I took your advice to heart and am speaking to someone about it.”

From Washington Post

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

From Science Magazine

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