paint the town red

paint the town red
   to carouse
   Usually of a single session of celebratory drunken debauchery. It has been suggested, somewhat improbably, that the phrase originated in the American west, where a drunken spree might start in a brothel area and then move uptown, although a reverse itinerary would have seemed more likely.

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