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We'll do the town one night on me.
— Dick Stensland · L.A. Confidential
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker offers to treat someone to a whole evening out, with the speaker paying for it. It is a breezy, open-handed promise of an evening's fun, offered as a treat rather than a debt, and confident in its own generosity.
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