to feel no pain
7
7.2
- idiom
:
no sentir dolor
- - She feels no pain, Mamma.
- she feels no pain
That if we felt no pain, we'd make no change.
- That if we felt no pain, we'd make no change.
- I am an island, and a rock feels no pain and an island never cries.
- And the other funny thing was it had the knife actually it it cut my nerve endings so I could literally feel no pain.
- And I felt powerful playing with the eyes around me and I felt no pain.
- They put them pillows and blankets in there and I had these great big pain pills and I've been must have been not feeling no pain at all.
Examples
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Now I'm feeling no pain
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I promise you'll feel no pain.
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You will strike your hand against the wall, but you will feel no pain.
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As long as I feel no pain, I am all right.
Fiction book (1999) -
After a hit, I feel no pain.
Fiction book (1990) -
The boy felt no pain.
Fiction book (1990) -
Mr. Maine is feeling no pain.
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But for the moment, Hank feels no pain.
Fiction book (1990) -
They feel no pain.
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Under local anesthesia, Christie feels no pain while Dr. Klein works to remove the fat.
Antonyms
How Painful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'feel' (experience) + 'no' (not any) + 'pain' (bodily discomfort) yields 'not experience discomfort,' so a learner who knows the parts can infer the phrase. This literal, cross-linguistically common construction is predictable for a B1 learner without prior exposure.
Etymology
Feel no pain comes from the simple picture of someone made numb by medicine or alcohol, so they cannot feel the pain. So, the phrase means 'to experience no discomfort', often because of drugs or drinking.