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field day

 noun
     
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field day [countable]
1

have a field day

informal to have a chance to do a lot of something you want, especially the chance to criticize someone:
The newspapers had a field day when the trial finished.
2 American EnglishSE a day when students at a school have sports competitions and parents watch [= sports day British English]
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