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Field-day

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Day of business. Thus, a clergyman jocosely calls a “kept festival” his field-day. A military term, meaning a day when a regiment is taken to the fields for practice.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fiddler’s Money
Fiddler’s News
Fiddlestick
Fiddlesticks!
Fidele
Fidelio
Fides
Fides
Fides Carbonarii
Field. (Anglo-Saxon, feld.)
Field-day
Field Marshal
Field Officer
Field Pieces
Field Works
Field of Blood
Field of Ice
Field of Vision or Field of View
Field of the Cloth of Gold
Field of the Forty Footsteps
Fielding