a person's wild oats

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• sow wild oats —    A person, usually a man, who sows their wild oats goes through a period of carefree pleasure seeking while they are young.     He was advised to sow his wild oats before he got married …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

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• wild — /waɪld / (say wuyld) adjective 1. living in a state of nature, as animals that have not been tamed or domesticated. 2. Obsolete (of Aboriginal people) living independent of white influence in the traditional manner: there were still wild blacks… …  

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• wild — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (of an animal or plant) in its original natural state; not domesticated or cultivated (esp. of species or varieties allied to others that are not wild). 2 not civilized; barbarous. 3 (of scenery etc.) having a… …   Useful english dictionary

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