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wild oats
plural noun
- slang.the indiscretions of youth, esp dissoluteness before settling down (esp in the phrase sow one's wild oats )
Idioms and Phrases
see sow one's wild oats .Example Sentences
When the ne’er-do-well scion of a Russian oligarch sows his wild oats a little too enthusiastically with New York stripper Ani, some serious people are summoned.
In the bad, late-'90s cable version of this story, Minda's sowing her wild oats but eventually realizes he's the one, and then they get married and have babies and whatever.
There's a sexist myth that only men want to sow wild oats, but of course, women also have sexual fantasies.
After we split, I took a couple of years to “sow my wild oats†and to find out who I am without him.
In Season 2, Gwen has attempted to sow her wild oats as a D.J. in Bali, and she returns home with a fresh, if not always welcome, perspective.
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