feel no pain
idiom
chiefly US, informal
: to be drunk
He had been at the bar for several hours and he was clearly feeling no pain.
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Attorneys for the state countered with their own experts who said death by firing squad or the electric chair likely would be instantaneous and the condemned would feel no pain.
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Jeffrey Collins, ajc, 5 Jan. 2023
Not to nitpick but, while most non-smokers feel no pain by popular tax increases on cigarettes and other tobacco products as the House Democrats have proposed, many smokers will notice as a number of them earn considerably less than $400,000 a year.
—Charlie Dent, CNN, 19 Sep. 2021
Those with mutations that deactivate Nav1.7 feel no pain at all.
—Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
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Jeffrey Collins, ajc, 5 Jan. 2023
Not to nitpick but, while most non-smokers feel no pain by popular tax increases on cigarettes and other tobacco products as the House Democrats have proposed, many smokers will notice as a number of them earn considerably less than $400,000 a year.
—Charlie Dent, CNN, 19 Sep. 2021
Those with mutations that deactivate Nav1.7 feel no pain at all.
—Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
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“Feel no pain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feel%20no%20pain. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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