In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.
I've sown all the oats I want to sow.
She was feeling her bohemian oats.
I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.
