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wild oats

plural noun

  1. slang.
    the indiscretions of youth, esp dissoluteness before settling down (esp in the phrase sow one's wild oats )


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Idioms and Phrases

see sow one's wild oats .

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Example Sentences

French voters, typically, are willing to give plenty of leeway to politicians sowing wild oats extra-conjugally.

You will forgive me, my dear, when I say that I think your husband has already sown a sufficiently large crop of wild oats.

For half a century, then, all wild oats from elsewhere usually sprouted at the Gap.

He had tried every game of chance and gone through all other operations collectively known as "sowing one's wild oats."

In early days herds of a very large deer, called elk, fed on the wild oats and grass.

This meal, or that from wild oats, was also mixed into a dough and baked on hot stones into bread.

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