feel one's oats 관용구
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.
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]
feel (one's) oats
1. To be actual alive and energetic. The dog charge be activity his oats, because how he's active about the backyard today.2. To be acquainted of one's own ability or importance. If you sassed the bang-up like that, you charge be activity your oats!Learn more: feel, oatfeel one's oats
1. Feel active or animated, as in School was out, and they were activity their oats. This acceptance alludes to the behavior of a horse afterwards accepting been fed. [Early 1800s]
2. Display self-importance, as in He was activity his oats, bossing anybody around. [Mid-1800s] Learn more: feel, oatfeel one's oats, to
To act active or lively. This saying, with its affinity to a horse that is active afterwards actuality fed, is American in agent and dates from the aboriginal nineteenth century. It appeared in book in Amos Lawrence’s Extracts from Diary and Correspondence (1833): “We both ‘feel our oats’ and our youth.”Learn more: feel