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• This isn’t one of them; Dak Prescott should have a field day.
  — Dallas News, 25 Sep. 2020
• Reddit day-traders will have a field day with this one.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 8 Oct. 2020
• So it’s not far fetched to assume that whiskey Twitter will have a field day with this.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 July 2022
• Tech companies, both large and small, can have a field day in the Big Apple.
  — Brad Thomas, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
• Parents will have a field day filling this and kids will enjoy it just as much.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 23 Nov. 2022
• Miniature enthusiasts will have a field day in the gift shop.
  — Jessamine Chan, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
• Cincinnati’s offense will have a field day feasting on the dirty birds Sunday.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• Oddly, traders still managed to have a field day dodging in and out of shares of the bankrupt company.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2020
• The defensive ends should have a field day against the NFL’s worst offensive tackle pairing.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2024
• Fido will have a field day at this doggie beachside paradise.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2022
• The Consumer Product Safety Commission would have a field day, too.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
• The show has received plenty of it, from dark jokes about how Sigmund Freud would have a field day to viral clips posted to social media.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
• If he gets indicted, Repubs are going to have a field day blaming his father for the son’s misdeeds.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Still, going against what was one of the worst rushing defenses in college football in 2019, Army’s triple-option attack is in line to have a field day.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
• If an unheard-of Lumberjacks team could have a field day against Arizona, then Oregon’s prospect of lighting it up on Saturday should be very good, to say the least.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2021
• Although the Frog defense should have a field day, inconsistency has plagued the Cyclones this season.
  — Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2022
• While Dickinson will likely have a field day down low, U-M hasn't fared well in close games all year, and a shocking end would be fitting in a season that never got on track.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
• That biodiversity hardens urban ecosystems against pests that would have a field day with a monocrop.
  — WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
• Armchair psychologists tend to have a field day at points of crisis in Netanyahu’s political career, of which there have been many.
  — Dina Kraft, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
• 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
• What's more, because magnification ranges from 4.5x all the way up to a whopping 30x, long-range shooters can have a field day on the range and the ability to reach out with shots unattainable with many less-powerful scopes.
  — Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2020
• And while that’s bad news for countless people and businesses who have invested in cryptocurrencies, the legal profession is about to have a field day.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2022
• And too much emphasis on the ground attack would leave redshirt sophomore quarterback Spencer Sanders to have a field day with Wallace, who already has 401 receiving yards and two touchdowns in four games.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Freud would have a field day with the intersection of the erotic and near-death that come together in these sequences, which Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput edit with an unerring sense of nature’s own percussion.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2022
• Humans fall into mental traps known as cognitive distortions all the time, pandemic or not, but oh boy did a few cognitive distortions have a field day in 2020.
  — Anna Borges, SELF, 28 Dec. 2020
• With her ego bruised, possibly gone, the id has stepped in to fill the void and have a field day insulting her friends, soaking up the vacant social media adulation, disregarding advice to get actual support.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Fox News and more would have a field day with two of the main characters having campaigned to get their college to divest from fossil fuels, work long supported by prominent environmental non-profits.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2025