go to town on

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go to town on (third-person singular simple present [[goes to town]] on#English|goes to town]] on]], present participle going to town on, simple past [[went to town]] on#English|went to town]] on]], past participle [[gone to town]] on#English|gone to town]] on]])

1. (idiomatic) To devour or consume (something); to enthusiastically or assiduously work on (something); to tear into (something).
   • 2011 October, Wellesley Wild, “Seahorse Seashell Party”, in Family Guy, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Meg:

     Is this coming from my role model mother? The shoplifter, the drug addict, the porn star, the whore who let Gene Simmons and Bill Clinton go to town on her?

• Eric Partridge (2005), “go to town on”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1995.