pintar o sete

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain, with a possible meaning of "to portray the Devil" – in this case pintar would get a figurative sense, meaning to become or to impersonate, and sete would be a clipping of sete-peles, one of the various metonyms for Satan in Portuguese – that is, to behave as wildly as a demon.[1] Literally, “to paint the seven”.

Verb

pintar o sete (first-person singular present pinto o sete, first-person singular preterite pintei o sete, past participle pintado o sete)

  1. (idiomatic) to paint the town red

See also

References
  1. Rafael Gustavo Rigolon (2021 April 27) “A origem da expressão ‘pintar o sete’”, in Facebook‎ (in Portuguese), retrieved 2023-04-19
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