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
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
The "Americanos" succeeded in waking up Nuevitas in some degree, and at night a few of them set out to "paint the town red".
From Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers by Adams, James Meade
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
