paint the town red
Example Sentences
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Cornhusker Corner is open twelve months a year, seven days a week, serving to paint the town red.
From Time Magazine Archive
Returning to Blida a convinced nationalist, Benkhedda wrote patriotic pamphlets and organized a group to paint the town red with slogans for Algerian independence.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But I'm not off to paint the town red," says John, believing the other thinks it is his intention to see the sights of Malta's capital by night—"I have an engagement."
From Miss Caprice by Rathborne, George, St.
Plainly they were advertising the fact that they had come to paint the town red and did not care who knew it.
From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod
"At least I've read that's how they act when they paint the town red."
From The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys by Hope, Laura Lee
