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Field day

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

    "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 …."

  2. 2
    a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering wordnet
  3. 3
    A school day for athletic events. US
  4. 4
    a time of unusual pleasure and success wordnet
  5. 5
    A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
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  1. 6
    a day for outdoor athletic competition wordnet
  2. 7
    A great time or a great deal to do; a period of bustling activity. idiomatic

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

  3. 8
    (military) a day for military exercises and display wordnet
  4. 9
    A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense. idiomatic

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

  5. 10
    A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning. Navy, US, specifically

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.

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