Paint the Town Red
What it means
Go out and celebrate loudly, with drink involved and little regard for the neighbours.
Where it comes from
The tale usually told involves the Marquis of Waterford and a night of vandalism in an English town in the 1830s. The phrase itself only surfaces in American papers decades later.
The puzzle it came from
Paint the Town Red was the answer to the Phrasicle of August 8, 2025. The clue read ____ the ____ ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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race
car
alarm
system
failure
cold
blood
red
flag
pole
ghost
town
square
root
cause
face
paint
roller
skate
board
Phrasicle: Paint the Town Red