sow one's oats
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editsow 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)
- 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.