paint the town red meaning
Verb: paint the town red
- (informal) party, go wild
[American idiom]
to have a wild celebration during a night on the town.
• Let's all go out and paint the town red!
• Oh, do I feel awful. I was out all last night, painting the town red.
[American slang]
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 TOWN2.
Examples
More: Next- al and jed are going to go paint the town red
- with so much money, we can really paint the town red
- with so much money, we can really paint the town red
- he is going out tonight to paint the town red
- tonight, we ’ re gonna paint the town red