I've chucked in tulip cultivation to paint the town red (4,2,2)
I believe the answer is:
live it up
'paint the town red' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'i've chucked in tulip cultivation' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'i've' could be 'ive' and 'ive' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'tulip' is 'litup' which is located in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for live it up that I've seen before include "Enjoy oneself" , "Go on a spree" , "paint the town red" .)