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Field day   /fild deɪ/   Listen
Field day

noun
1.
(military) a day for military exercises and display.
2.
A day for outdoor athletic competition.
3.
A time of unusual pleasure and success.
4.
A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering.  Synonyms: outing, picnic.





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"Field day" Quotes from Famous Books



... District, arrived on the field. He immediately ordered the two squadrons of the 13th Bengal Lancers to move well to the right flank, to charge across the front and check the enemy's advance. The "cease fire" sounded as on a field day. Then there was a pause. The movements of the cavalry were concealed from most of the troops, but suddenly all noticed the slackening of the enemy's fire. Then the tribesmen were seen to be in retreat and disorder. The power of cavalry had been strikingly displayed. The two squadrons, ably led, ...
— The Story of the Malakand Field Force • Sir Winston S. Churchill
... been a single man in the brigade wounded by shell fire, and rifles and machine guns are the same. The casualties occur only in a push when one goes over the parapet, and that is not war, only a big field day. I was talking to a sergeant-major who had been through Neuve Chapelle, and said that it was just like a field day in Salisbury Plain, men marching in fours in all sorts of formations. His battalion halted after a little, ate its lunch, and then ...
— Letters from France • Isaac Alexander Mack


Words linked to "Field day" :   day, war machine, armed forces, military machine, vacation, holiday, period, military, time period, armed services, period of time


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