at that, leaving this expression vulnerable to a host of other colorful origin stories. ![]() The saying, however, wasn’t first printed until 1883 and in the U.S. What does red paint have to do with rambunctious fun? The source of the saying is much disputed, but it’s popularly refrained that in 1837, a roguish Marquis of Waterford led a riotous spree through the English town of Melton Mowbray, literally painting several of its buildings red (it was lit, apparently). Take paint the town red, an expression for boisterous partying. ![]() ![]() But have you ever stopped to consider them-I mean, really looked at them up close? They’re very strange. Sayings, proverbs, adages, idioms-they have a taken-for-granted quality about them, their wisdom and utility packaged in a tidy bundle of words ready for us to drop into our sundry communication needs.
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