Celebrate or apply enamel to village reactionary (5,3,4,3)
I believe the answer is:
paint the town red
'celebrate' is the definition.
(to paint the town red is to celebrate hard)
'apply enamel to village reactionary' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'to' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'or' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for paint the town red that I've seen before include "Go on a pub crawl" , "get rid of the blues?" , "enjoy celebration" , "Celebrate" .)