paint the town red

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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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

I tell you, I mean to paint the town red.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph

In the second instance the crews of two Cardiff tramps had joined in an effort to "paint the town red" at Bilbao, the Spanish port.

From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by Dilnot, George