field day
field day noun: a day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).
Noun
field day (plural field days)
- 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 ….1937, Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 621 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston )
- A school day for athletic events.
- Synonyms:
- sports day
- A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
- 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.2014, Vance Munraff, Sounds Like Paradise: a Fugitive's Tale, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 62
- 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.
- A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning.
field day meaning in Tamil
field day in Tamil
- கள நாள், பள்ளியில் விளையாட்டு நாள், இராணுவத்தில் அணிவகுப்பு நாள், சிறந்த, மகிழ்ச்சியாகக் கழித்த நேரம், நாள்
Examples of field day in a sentence
- 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)1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield:
- All parties had retained attorneys; the community and press were having a field day.2009, Julie Jurgens-Shimek, Autism Is a Four Letter Word: Love, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 32:
- The devil was having a field day with my head.2012, Claudia Parker, Becoming a Mother, While Losing My Own, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 158:
- The reporters were having a field day with our saga and the courtroom filled with spectators.2012, Gary Rosen, Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 140:
Synonyms of field day
Forms of field day
| plural | field days |
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Origin of field day
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.
Questions about field day
- What does field day mean?
- Field day means a day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).
- What is field day in Tamil?
- Field day in Tamil is கள நாள், பள்ளியில் விளையாட்டு நாள், இராணுவத்தில் அணிவகுப்பு நாள். See Field day meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use field day in a sentence?
- 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)
- What part of speech is field day?
- Field day is a noun.
- What is the plural of field day?
- The plural of field day is field days.
Words near field day in the dictionary
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