go on the town

“I didn’t even feel like I was playing in a game. I feel so good I could go on the town when I get back to New York,” Knicks guard Walt Frazier said.

Mr. Kendricks said her cookin’ warn’t up to the mark, an’ if he has to go on the town this comin’ winter he shouldn’t go to Mis’ Cobbles.

The most tragic failure of the individual in those days was the poverty or illness which compelled him to "go on the town."

And he groaned out, “Good reason why we don’t make the venter often, unless we want to go on the Town!”

She had once been a decent woman, but her husband was a drunken vagabond, as beat and starved her to such an extent, that she was obliged to go on the town to keep herself from dying of actual starvation.