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feel no pain



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Idioms and Phrases

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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Lawyers for the state had their own experts at the 2022 trial who argued death by firing squad or the electric chair likely would be instantaneous and the condemned would feel no pain.

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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."

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Attorneys for the state countered with their own experts who said death by firing squad or the electric chair would be instantaneous and the condemned would feel no pain.

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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.

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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.”

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