sow one's oats

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sow one's oats (third-person singular simple present sows one's oats, present participle sowing one's oats, simple past sowed one's oats, past participle sown one's oats or sowed one's oats)

  1. Alternative form of sow one's wild oats.
    • 2022 November 27, Mike White, “That's Amore”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 5, spoken by Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy), via HBO:
      I feel like you sow your oats when you're young, and then you just, you know, you get it out of your system.