Paint the Town Red

Paint the town red originally applied to bonfires that you wouldn't paint something red with actual paint. The phrase was helped into populated by the fact that to paint, i.e. to paint the nose red was an old slang term for drinking. So it all comes together. You want to go out and hit the bars and the pubs. You will paint the town red. And next one is to turn a blind eye. What does that mean? Normally, it's a willful ignorance of reality.