go on the town

Example Sentences

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“I didn’t even feel like I was playing in a game. I feel so good I could go on the town when I get back to New York,” Knicks guard Walt Frazier said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2023

Mr. Kendricks said her cookin’ warn’t up to the mark, an’ if he has to go on the town this comin’ winter he shouldn’t go to Mis’ Cobbles.

From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks

And he 'as gone to God-knows-where, And I may go on the town.

From Many Voices by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

If his farm was confiscated, they'd have to go on the town.

From The Duke of Stockbridge by Bellamy, Edward

The most tragic failure of the individual in those days was the poverty or illness which compelled him to "go on the town."

From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Perry, Bliss