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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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2024 Whereas Republicans had no doubt planned to have a field day should Hunter have been acquitted, his guilty conviction cut against their narrative that the legal system is rigged against them. —

Maryalice Parks, ABC News, 12 June 2024 Miniature enthusiasts will have a field day in the gift shop. —

Jessamine Chan, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024 Serious historians will have a field day with Putin’s countless inaccuracies and lies. —

John Hewko, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for have a field day

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