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
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
I don't know, now, what we did when we found the boat had gone without us, but we made up our minds to paint the town red.
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
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
