"heyday" for "field day"

[Charles Doyle]

My wife has regularly done this for decades, and I just came across it it print--in Fahnestock and MacAfee's translation of _Les Miserables_ (1987), p. 884:

"have a heyday" in place of the idiom "have a field day."

--Charlie
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