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
"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
He's one of them McHulishes whose name in them old history times was enough to whoop up the boys and make 'em paint the town red.
From A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories by Harte, Bret
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
