| 单词 | to have a field day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a field day b. figurative. A day noted for remarkable or exciting events; a period of celebration or triumph. Now chiefly in to have a field day: to enjoy a great opportunity for action or success (sometimes at the expense of others). ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > exciting or memorable day red-letter day1663 field day1827 1827 T. Creevey Let. 26 Mar. (1934) ii. xiii. 236 Saturday was a considerable field day in Arlington Street,..and a very merry jolly dinner and evening we had. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xx. 74 The mean pomp and ostentation which distinguish our banquets on grand field-days. 1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. i. 209 Thursday..is to be a great field-day in the Commons. 1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 ii. 45 The two experts, who had for days been working every afternoon, and often late into the night, put in a regular field-day. 1953 A. Huxley Let. 8 Dec. (1969) 689 Industrial agriculture is having a field day in the million acres of barren plain now irrigated. 1969 New Yorker 12 Apr. 98/2 The human-factors men have been having a field day with it. 2004 A. McCall Smith Sunday Philos. Club xix. 204 He made those embarrassingly frank remarks about his private temptations, and the press had a field day. < as lemmas |
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