oats Idioma

feeling his oats

feeling energetic, feeling strong Look at that cowboy dance! He's feeling his oats tonight.

sow wild oats

live a wild life as a young person As a youth he lived a reckless life. He sowed a few wild oats.

sow one's wild oats

Idiom(s): sow one's wild oats

Theme: LIFESTYLE

to do wild and foolish things in one's youth. (Often assumed to have some sort of sexual meaning.)
• Dale was out sowing his wild oats last night, and he's in jail this morning.
• Mrs. Smith told Mr. Smith that he was too old to be sowing his wild oats.

separate the sheep from the goats

Idiom(s): separate the sheep from the goats

Theme: DIVISION

to divide people into two groups.
• Working in a place like this really separates the sheep from the goats.
• We cant go on with the game until we separate the sheep from the goats. Let's see who can jump the farthest.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Describes something that will be helpful to all.

A rising tide lifts all boats

This idiom, coined by John F Kennedy, describes the idea that when an economy is performing well, all people will benefit from it.

At each other's throats

If people are at each other's throats, they are fighting, arguing or competing ruthlessly.

Sow your wild oats

If a young man sows his wild oats, he has a period of his life when he does a lot of exciting things and has a lot of sexual relationships. for e.g. He'd spent his twenties sowing his wild oats but felt that it was time to settle down.

Whatever floats your boat

When people say this, they mean that you should do whatever makes you happy.

at each other's throats|each other's throats|throa

prep. phr. Always arguing and quarreling. Joan and Harry have been at each other's throats so long that they have forgotten how much they used to love one another.

burn one's bridges|boat|boats|bridge|bridges|burn|

v. phr. To make a decision that you cannot change; remove or destroy all the ways you can get back out of a place you have got into on purpose; leave yourself no way to escape a position. Bob was a good wrestler but a poor boxer. He burned his boats by letting Mickey choose how they would fight. When Dorothy became a nun, she burned her bridges behind her.

feel one's oats|feel|oats

v. phr., slang 1. To feel frisky or playful; be eager and excited. The horses were feeling their oats. When they first got to camp, the boys were feeling their oats. 2. To act in a proud or important way. The new gardener was feeling his oats and started to boss the other men.

sow one's wild oats|oats|sow|wild oats

v. phr. To do bad or foolish things, especially while you are young. Mr. Jones sowed his wild oats while he was in college, but now he is a wiser and better man.

feel one's oats

feel one's oats
1) Feel frisky or animated, as in School was out, and they were feeling their oats. This usage alludes to the behavior of a horse after having been fed. [Early 1800s]
2) Display self-importance, as in He was feeling his oats, bossing everyone around. [Mid-1800s]

oats

oats
see feel one's oats; sow one's wild oats.

wild oats

wild oats
see sow one's wild oats.