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
But my first fancy was that some dissipated gentleman on his way home at four o'clock in the morning had attempted to paint the town red and got only as far as one lamp-post.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
When we get to New York we will simply paint the town red, and if you wish, then, we'll go on to Europe.
From The Desired Woman by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
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 William MacLeod Raine
