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
Won't I paint the town red, that's all!
From A Student in Arms Second Series by Hankey, Donald
I tell you, I mean to paint the town red.
From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph
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
