| 单词 | to paint the town |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto paint the town (red) P2. transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). to paint the town (red) (and variants): to enjoy oneself flamboyantly; go on a boisterous or exuberant spree. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous revelc1390 ragea1400 roara1450 jet?1518 tirl on the berry?1520 roist1563 roist1574 revel1580 domineer1592 ranta1616 roister1663 scour1673 tory-rory1685 scheme1738 to run the rig1750 gilravagea1760 splore?a1799 spree1859 to go on the (or a) bend1863 to flare up1869 to whoop it up1873 to paint the town (red)1882 razzle1908 to make whoopee1920 boogie1929 to beat it up1933 ball1946 rave1961 1882 Semi-weekly Interior Jrnl. (Stanford, Kentucky) 10 Mar. 1/4 He gets on a high old drunk with a doubtful old man, and they paint the town red together. 1883 N.Y. Times 27 July 5/3 Mr. James Hennessy offered a resolution that the entire body proceed forthwith to Newark and get drunk... Then the Democrats charged upon the street cars, and being wafted into Newark proceeded, to use their own metaphor, to ‘paint the town red’. 1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 20 Nov. 2/4 Whenever there was any excitement or anybody got particularly loud, they always said somebody was ‘painting the town red’. 1889 R. Kipling Abaft Funnel (1909) 50 They..would..do their best towards painting that town [sc. Chicago] in purest vermilion. 1900 M. H. Hayes Among Horses Russia i. 36 I have found them..in no way inclined to paint town and country red on the slightest provocation. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 594 And there he was at the end of his tether after having often painted the town tolerably pink. 1971 J. Didion Play it as it Lays lix. 151 Next time I'm over we'll paint the town. 1994 Voice 18 Oct. 12 Singers, sport stars, song-writers and other famous faces..poured themselves into their glad rags and painted the town red. < as lemmas |
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