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
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)
"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 Hope, Laura Lee
My form is chin close on the 'andle, my 'at set well back on my 'ed, And my spine fairly 'umped to it, CHARLIE, and then carn't I paint the town red?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 by Various
