sow wild oats

Meaning

1. sow (your) wild oats

   to go through a period of wild behaviour while young, especially having a lot of romantic or sexual relationships

In the movies · 2

• What, sowing my wild oats?Another Year2010
• Oh, I mean, three days of sowing wild oats...Gilda1946

Learn it in full scenes

• Another Year2010
  • A Woman Asks for Sleeping Pills
  • Janet Rates Her Happiness
  • Mary Confides in Gerri Over Drinks

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• you reap what you sow
• make a silk purse out of a sow's ear