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Paint the town red

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To party or celebrate in a rowdy, wild manner, especially in a public place. idiomatic

    "It was the end of term and students decided to celebrate by painting the town red."

Etymology

US slang. Earliest known use 1884. Various theories include the red from bonfires, the heat from over-stoked paddle-wheel boilers, and town demarcation lines in the Wild West. A British claim attributing it to the actions of the Third Marquess of Waterford predates the first known use by decades.

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