paint the town red
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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
Won't I paint the town red, that's all!
From A Student in Arms Second Series by Hankey, Donald
My form is chin close on the 'andle, my 'at set well back on my 'ed, And my spine fairly 'umped to it, CHARLIE, and then carn't I paint the town red?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various
When we get to New York we will simply paint the town red, and if you wish, then, we'll go on to Europe.
From The Desired Woman by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
