- wild excesses
- wüste Ausschweifungen
English-German idiom dictionary. 2013.
English-German idiom dictionary. 2013.
wild oats — n. youthful excesses to sow one s wild oats * * * [ youthful excesses ] to sow one s wild oats … Combinatory dictionary
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… …
wild oats — /waɪld ˈoʊts/ (say wuyld ohts) plural noun 1. Also, black oats, wild oat. any uncultivated species of the genus Avena, especially A. fatua, a common grass or weed resembling the cultivated oat. 2. dissolute behaviour in one s youth. –phrase 3.… …
sow one's wild oats — verb live promiscuously and self indulgently • Syn: ↑sow one s oats • Hypernyms: ↑gratify, ↑pander, ↑indulge • Verb Frames: Somebody s * * * sow one s w … Useful english dictionary
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