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 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 Rathborne, George, St.
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 Ward, Maisie
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
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