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field day

noun

Etymology

Some postulate the idiomatic usage is derived from the "parade day" military use. A parade is much easier than the soldiers’ usual drilling and intense exercise.

Definitions

  1. A day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).

  2. A school day for athletic events.

  3. A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A great time or a great deal to do

      A great time or a great deal to do; a period of bustling activity.

      • 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.

    2. A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense.

      • 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)

    3. A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA