Brewer's: Field-day

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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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