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have a field day
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have a field day
to have an opportunity to do a lot of something you want to do, especially to criticize someone. The newspapers would have a field day if their affair ever became public knowledge.
See also: day, field


have a field day
to be able to do something you enjoy a great deal, esp. criticizing someone. The newspapers would have a field day if his drinking was ever widely known.
See also: day, field

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Under the direction of conservative anchor Joe Scarborough, two journalists from Us Weekly and The Star plus notorious gay-hater Jennifer Giroux from Citizens for Community Values had a field day criticizing the couple, gays in general, and Winfrey herself.
Toronto -- When the Canadian mainstream media had a field day over Mel Gibson's drunken manic outburst, it took a Jewish convert to Catholicism to provide some perspective.
They could have a field day blasting the bureaucracy for being too slow, too unyielding, and for making Los Angeles an impossible place to do business.
 
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