Glyn Flirt and Flapper 59: Flapper: means to paint the town red - kill time - go on a party - get stewed run wild. ‘Bartimeus’ ‘The Crusher’ in Great Security 151: ‘What are you going to do wirth all this money?’ ‘Paint the town red.’.Į. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 192: Maybe the Babbitt men won’t paint that lil ole town red! 8: They were the days when we got paid together, painted the town together, and went broke together. Noble Sissle ‘How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm?’ □ How ‘ya gonna keep them away from Broadway, / Jazzin’ around, /And paintin’ the town?Ĭapt. Dennis ‘The Joy Ride’ in Backblock Ballads 103: They ses we painted Fernville red / They ses that we were gay. Wodehouse Psmith Journalist (1993) 173: One who, like myself, arrives with a brush and a little bucket of red paint, all eager for a treat.Ĭ.J. 7/4: The hobbledehoys painting things very red and the gals on their part painting things a trifle blue. 5/4: Smith proceeded to paint the town a bright vermillion and to start a rough house at his home. Bennett Card (1974) 125: As for setting the town on fire, or painting it scarlet, he seemed to have lost the trick of that.ĭly Ardmoreite (OK) 2 Oct. 4/7: A Perth architect, well known for his proneness for painting the town on occasions, gave the city an extra coating last week.Ī. 3/7: fter he had painted London a bright carmine he was told he’d better cut it out. Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 30 Mar. Luftig’ ‘Where are my Dollars Gone?’ in Bulletin Reciter 1880–1901 77: A trifle glorious I may get, now and then, with comrades gay, / And paint the town vermillion. 44/3: The cheerful royst’rer of uncertain tread, / Who used to paint the town bright red.īateman & LeBrunn Folkestone for the Day □ We painted Folkestone beautiful red, and came back lovely brown. 4/4: An’ he paints the district crimson when you get him fairly wild. 55: Paint the Town Red, to play a great lark. When we’re out on a randan, we don’t care a -.Ĭ. Pett Ridge Minor Dialogues 263: We painted the bally place red, I can tell you. 15/2: e can devote a few evenings out painting the town a deep vermilion. Henry’ ‘Chanson de Bohême’ in Rolling Stones (1913) 243: I’d rather distribute a coat of red / On the town with a wad of dough. St Paul Dly Globe (MN) 24 June 9/3: When Coxey gets to Congress we’ll paint the town vermillion just whenever we durn please. 1/4: He must not paint the country red, nor go upon the spree. 1/6: Young Crossbred, son of a big speculating Victoria squatter, ‘came in’ and painted the town red.Ĭivil & Milit. 1/3: And the pair were painting the Tivoli pea green with the proceeds. 3/5: It is utterly wrong to suppose that Wilfrid Lawsonites never ‘paint the town’. By six o’clock the pretty little watering place was as red in the face as a spanked baby. 1/4: A party of Brighton viveurs drove over to Worthing a few days back, and no sooner struck the little town than they began to get in the decorating work with the carmine brush. Trumble Mott Street Poker Club 33: ‘Mr Hong-Lung may be confidently expected to paint things red in his best style’. 1/2: They wore the garb of a veritable cowboy who might paint the town vermillion hue if they got on a rampage.Ī. ‘’Arry on the Jubilee’ in Punch 25 June 305/1: The town’s painted red, I can tell yer.ĭallas Dly Herald (TX) 28 Jan. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 147: One of these chaps from Texas come in there to paint the town, and got his tank full. The local Marine Board, however, do not encourage sport, and threaten to deal severely with any tug-master who takes to ‘painting her red’ in future.į. in Miller & Snell Why the West was Wild 515: A pair of very ‘fly’ Chicago drummers came down last week bent on doing the ‘boys’ up and painting the town red.īulletin (Sydney) 23 May 14/1: Great sport up in Newcastle (N.S.W.) steam-tug racing. 3/3: The boys painted the town a ‘bright vermillion’.Ĭaldwell Journal 16 Oct. Oracle XII 28: And nightly I painted, Vermillion, the town / Or with flashes of crimson, I varied the hue, / While language Soph’moric, Would make the air blue. in Wiley Life of Johnny Reb (1943) 66: We visit the Theaters may be get on a big Whope & Paint the thing red.
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