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
I don't know, now, what we did when we found the boat had gone without us, but we made up our minds to paint the town red.
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
He is bent on being a jolly journalist, to paint the town red, and he does not need style to do that.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
They went to the best hotels, and they are living on the fat of the land, but they do not throw money away, and not one started in to paint the town red.
From All about the Klondyke gold mines by Knox, J. Armoy
