Have a field day
verb phrase
To indulge oneself freely and successfully;haveit entirelyone’s way;goallout: When the news gets out, the press will have a field day/ I’m afraid the bunnies have had a field day with the hyacinths
[1827+; fr mid-1700s field day, ”a military review”]
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