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
Plainly they were advertising the fact that they had come to paint the town red and did not care who knew it.
From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod
