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  • 111sow (your) wild oats — sow (your) wild ˈoats idiom (of young men) to go through a period of wild behaviour while young, especially having a lot of romantic or sexual relationships • He wants to leave home, sow his wild oats and learn about life. Main entry: ↑sowidiom …

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  • 112Carleton Oats — Infobox Pro Football player Color=Black fontcolor=Silver DateOfBirth=Birth date and age|1942|4|24|mf=y Birthplace=Polkinghorne Village, Florida DateOfDeath= Position=Defensive lineman College=Florida A M AFL DraftedYear=1965 DraftedRound=… …

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  • 113Quaker Oats — (engl., spr. kwĕker ōts, »Quäkerhafer«), amerikan. Nährpräparat aus gequetschtem Hafer, wird zur Bereitung von Suppen benutzt …

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  • 114Quaker Oats{™} — a popular breakfast cereal. The Quaker Oats Company, whose main office is in Chicago, also makes a range of other food products. * * * …

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  • 115Order Audit Trail System - OATS — An automated computer system owned by the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD) that is used to record information relating to orders, quotes and other related trade information from all equities that are traded on the Nasdaq, including …

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  • 116Quaker Oats Company — es una corporación estadounidense de alimentos con sede en Illinois,Chicago. Fundada en 1901 por la fusión de tres compañías separadas, todas las cuales vendían productos hechos de avena, por ejemplo la harina de avena. La compañía se diversificó …

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  • 117sow\ one's\ 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 …

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  • 118feeling his oats — feeling energetic, feeling strong    Look at that cowboy dance! He s feeling his oats tonight …

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  • 119sow wild oats — live a wild life as a young person    As a youth he lived a reckless life. He sowed a few wild oats …

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  • 120sow your wild oats —    to behave wildly or irresponsibly    With extravagance or with promiscuous seminal distribution, like the persistent weed Avena fatua:     We all sow our wild oats at some time or another. (Sharpe, 1974) …

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