Meaning of field day | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).
2. A school day for athletic events.
   US
3. A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
4. A great time or a great deal to do; a period of bustling activity.
   idiomatic
5. A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense.
   idiomatic
6. A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning.
   Navy, US, specifically

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Examples

“This morning I got up, with great difficulty, at 6.30, and at 7.45 we started out for a Brigade Field Day. Did an attack from 10.30 to 2.30, but it wasn't a strenuous one for me as I was told to "become a casualty" soon after the 3000 yard assault began ….”

“They went to the park and had a field day playing on the swings.”

“A family of frisky squirrels was having a field day amongst the towering obstacle course of foliage.”

“The reporters will have a field day with a comment like that.”

“The scandal was a field day for the press.”

“What a field day for the heat (Ooo-ooo-ooo) / A thousand people in the street (Ooo-ooo-ooo) / Singing songs and a-carryin' signs (Ooo-ooo-ooo) / Mostly say "Hooray for our side" (Ooo-ooo-ooo)”

“It had become a legal nightmare. All parties had retained attorneys; the community and press were having a field day.”

“I thought I'd been so thorough, so efficient, and so cost conscious, but look where I was now. The devil was having a field day with my head.”

“The reporters were having a field day with our saga and the courtroom filled with spectators.”

“The Russian foreign ministry had a field day denouncing what it called western propaganda as a high-level lie.”

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