Talk:field day

Have a field day

Um, have a field day is actually a separate idiom from this noun. --Connel MacKenzie T C 16:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

What does "have a field day" mean that isn't in common with something just being a field day? Davilla 12:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually it does have a totally separate meaning. It means some kind of orgy of livid anger.

Autochthony writes: Surely there are two separate things here; 'Working a Field Day' - in the [British] Merchant Navy sense, which means working long hours until the job is done [usually something like changing a piston liner - sixteen or eighteen hours if any little problems appear; not just 'cleaning']; and 'having a field day' - almost having a spree, certainly profiting mightily, often at someone else's expense. — This comment was unsigned.

We have two distinct military senses. This business of having multiple meanings, sometimes opposite meanings, is not so rare. DCDuring TALK 02:08, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Never heard this term in British English

I don't think I've ever heard this term in British English. It should be noted that it is primarily an American English expression.--X sprainpraxisL 20:08, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

• DCDuring TALK 22:10, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I've heard of it, no doubt about that. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:19, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Total tosh - well known expression in the UK. SemperBlotto 22:22, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

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field day

I can find no definition or use which refers to "parades", they all refer to exercises & manoevres — Saltmarsh. 13:15, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

RFV-failed, while there can be parades as part of a military field day, there is no evidence that it is simply a parade day. Kiwima (talk) 21:49, 24 September 2018 (UTC)