paint the town red
Example Sentences
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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
Cornhusker Corner is open twelve months a year, seven days a week, serving to paint the town red.
From Time Magazine Archive
He's one of them McHulishes whose name in them old history times was enough to whoop up the boys and make 'em paint the town red.
From A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories by Harte, Bret
But my first fancy was that some dissipated gentleman on his way home at four o'clock in the morning had attempted to paint the town red and got only as far as one lamp-post.
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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
