paint the town red
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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
"But I'm not off to paint the town red," says John, believing the other thinks it is his intention to see the sights of Malta's capital by night—"I have an engagement."
From Miss Caprice by St. George Rathborne
"At least I've read that's how they act when they paint the town red."
From The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys by Laura Lee Hope
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 Maisie Ward
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