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
The "Americanos" succeeded in waking up Nuevitas in some degree, and at night a few of them set out to "paint the town red".
From Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers by Adams, James Meade
Won't I paint the town red, that's all!
From A Student in Arms Second Series by Hankey, Donald
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
