英语词汇paint the town red的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

paint the town red. If Indians burning down a town sug- gested this phrase meaning to go on wild sprees, to make “whoopee,” no one has been able to find the actual culprits. More than one scholar does nominate the flames Indians on the warpath often left behind for the “red” in the phrase, and the expression did originate in the American West, where it was first applied to the wild partying of cowboys in about 1880. Another good guess suggests a link with the older ex- pression to paint, meaning “to drink,” which, coupled with the way a drunk’s nose lights up red, may have resulted in the phrase. Or red, a color commonly associated with violence, could have derived from the way the “painters” did violence to the town or to themselves.

词汇	paint the town red
词源	paint the town red. If Indians burning down a town sug- gested this phrase meaning to go on wild sprees, to make “whoopee,” no one has been able to find the actual culprits. More than one scholar does nominate the flames Indians on the warpath often left behind for the “red” in the phrase, and the expression did originate in the American West, where it was first applied to the wild partying of cowboys in about 1880. Another good guess suggests a link with the older ex- pression to paint, meaning “to drink,” which, coupled with the way a drunk’s nose lights up red, may have resulted in the phrase. Or red, a color commonly associated with violence, could have derived from the way the “painters” did violence to the town or to themselves.
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