paint the town red

[paint the town red] or [paint the town] {v. phr.}, {slang} To go out to drink and have a good time; celebrate wildly; carouse.

* /It was the sailors' first night ashore; they painted the town red./

Compare: ON THE TOWN(2).

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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