| 单词 | to sow one's wild oats |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sow one's wild oats to sow one's wild oats [in reference to the folly and mischief of sowing wild oats instead of good grain] : to commit youthful excesses or follies; to spend early life in dissipation or dissolute courses (usually implying subsequent reform). Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > live dissolutely [verb (intransitive)] > in youth to sow one's wild oats1576 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. 99 That wilfull and vnruly age, which lacketh rypenes and discretion, and (as wee saye) hath not sowed all theyr wyeld Oates. 1583 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue lxxxvii I finde that all my wildest Oates are sowne. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. ii. 35 You ha trauelled enough now..to sowe your wilde oates. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 179 Thus ended my first Harvest of Wild Oats. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. vii. 125 A leniency which often talks thus:..A young man must sow his wild oats and reform. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Nov. 2/3 The wild oats, fully sown, are a veritable road to ruin. 1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman p. xxviii He and I and Mr. Sidney Webb were sowing our political wild oats as a sort of Fabian Three Musketeers, without any prevision of the surprising respectability of the crop that followed. 1969 R. D. Pharr Bk. of Numbers (1970) xxiv. 299 He had been thinking of his interlude with Kelly as being a time of sowing wild oats. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 15 Dec. 157/3 Neal..the superassimilated son of Indian immigrants..is sowing his wild oats before an arranged marriage. < as lemmas |
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