field day
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.16 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
noun
A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense.
Example Sentences
- "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 …."
- "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."
- "The reporters will have a field day with a comment like that."
- "The scandal was a field day for the press."
- "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)"
Etymology
Usage
- American usage