field day | Idiomator

Meaning: (military)Adayformaneuversandtacticalexercisesin thefield(across the landscape).1937,Siegfried Sassoon,Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 621 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston ):This morning I got up, with great difficulty, at 6.30, and at 7.45 we started out for a BrigadeField 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 ….; Aschool dayforathleticevents; asports day.; Adayofclasstaken away fromschoolfor afield trip.; (idiomatic)Agreattimeor a great deal to do; a period ofbustlingactivity.Coordinate term:field nightThey went to the park and had afield dayplaying on the swings.2014, Vance Munraff,Sounds Like Paradise: a Fugitive's Tale, Lulu.com,→ISBN,page62:A family of frisky squirrels was having afield dayamongst the towering obstacle course of foliage.; (idiomatic)Agreattimeor a great deal to do, at somebody else'sexpense.The reporters will have afield daywith a comment like that.The scandal was afield dayfor the press.1966December,Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”‎[1]performed byBuffalo Springfield:What afield dayfor 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)2009, Julie Jurgens-Shimek,Autism Is a Four Letter Word: Love, AuthorHouse,→ISBN,page32:It had become a legal nightmare. All parties had retained attorneys; the community and press were having afield day.2012, Claudia Parker,Becoming a Mother, While Losing My Own, Xlibris Corporation,→ISBN,page158:I thought I'd been so thorough, so efficient, and so cost conscious, but look where I was now. The devil was having afield daywith my head.2012, Gary Rosen,Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page140:The reporters were having afield daywith our saga and the courtroom filled with spectators.2022November 15,Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:The Russian foreign ministry had afield daydenouncing what it called western propaganda as a high-level lie.; (USmilitary,specifically US Navy,US Coast Guard and US Marine Corps)Adayon which there istop-to-bottomall-handscleaning.

Examples:

EN: Imagine the field day they would have enjoyed if they'd marched through the streets of Washington?
ES: Imaginad cómo disfrutarían desfilando por las calles de Washington.
EN: Mort really had a field day for himself.
ES: Mort hizo su agosto.
EN: He's having a field day, but wait till that old tiger clemenceau gets through with him.
ES: A lo mejor ahora cae en que existen cosas...
EN: The papers will have a field day at my expense.
ES: Todos los periódicos se divertirán a mis espaldas.
EN: The papers have been having a field day at your expense.
ES: Los medios están gozando, a costa tuya.
EN: A field day?
ES: ¿Gozando?
EN: Penn kicked off to Carlisle, but Jim soon learned that this was going to be no field day!
ES: "Penn" sacó sobre Carlisle, Jim comprendió pronto que no iba a ser un partido fácil.
EN: The press will have a field day.
ES: La prensa se va a hinchar a escribir.
EN: The prosecutor will have a field day with the jury.
ES: El fiscal podrá hacer sus gestos dramáticos ante el jurado.
EN: Television's had a field day, All the papers raised their circulation, And Rienzi's lawyers got richer.
ES: La televisión hizo su agosto, los periódicos aumentaron la tirada... y el abogado de Rienzi se hizo más rico.
EN: And my creditors will have a field day.
ES: Y mis acreedores harán el agosto.
EN: It's quite a field day for fay, by the way.
ES: Un día completito para la funeraria, por cierto.
EN: The Kiowas are having a field day, but why?
ES: Los kiowas hacen su agosto, pero ¿por qué?
EN: You know better than that. My ulcer has been having a field day again.
ES: Ya sabes que es un gran día para la úlcera.
EN: Oh! Mona will have a field day.
ES: Mona causará estragos.

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