have a field day
idiom
: to get a lot of pleasure and enjoyment from doing something
—used especially to describe getting enjoyment from criticizing someone, making fun of someone, etc.
If word of his involvement in this scandal ever leaks out, the newspapers are going to have a field day.
Journalists have had a field day with this scandal.
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Serious historians will have a field day with Putin’s countless inaccuracies and lies.
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John Hewko, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
Celebrity watchers are about to have a field day with the Super Bowl on Sunday because the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers both have deep rosters of famous fans.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
Thinking back to the alienation of affection by robot (lawyers should have a field day with that one in custody battles), could a robot have a role in improving parent-to-parent or parent-to-child communication?
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2017
The Japanese right would have a field day, exclaiming that the country's reliance on the United States for its security had left it unable to defend its interests.
—Gerald L. Curtis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2013
Would Trump and Republicans have a field day attacking Democratic insiders for pulling a fast one on the public?
—Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
The defensive ends should have a field day against the NFL’s worst offensive tackle pairing.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
Sky watchers in the Bay Area will have a field day as the air overhead becomes more unstable during the afternoon, that will replicate some of the active rounds of heavy rain and brief thunderstorms residents experienced Tuesday, while a few different spots are targeted Wednesday.
—Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2023
Wayman suggested that defense attorneys would have a field day asking why investigators had relied on an academic lab—and not the FBI’s examiners.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
John Hewko, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
Celebrity watchers are about to have a field day with the Super Bowl on Sunday because the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers both have deep rosters of famous fans.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
Thinking back to the alienation of affection by robot (lawyers should have a field day with that one in custody battles), could a robot have a role in improving parent-to-parent or parent-to-child communication?
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2017
The Japanese right would have a field day, exclaiming that the country's reliance on the United States for its security had left it unable to defend its interests.
—Gerald L. Curtis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2013
Would Trump and Republicans have a field day attacking Democratic insiders for pulling a fast one on the public?
—Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
The defensive ends should have a field day against the NFL’s worst offensive tackle pairing.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
Sky watchers in the Bay Area will have a field day as the air overhead becomes more unstable during the afternoon, that will replicate some of the active rounds of heavy rain and brief thunderstorms residents experienced Tuesday, while a few different spots are targeted Wednesday.
—Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2023
Wayman suggested that defense attorneys would have a field day asking why investigators had relied on an academic lab—and not the FBI’s examiners.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
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