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 believe I shall have to go back to Brennerstadt with him to paint the town red.
From The Top of the World by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
I tell you, I mean to paint the town red.
From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph
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)
