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Meanings of wild oats in English

Any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers.

Usage of wild oats in English
1
But his guardians never believed in the wild oats pilgrimage he threatened.
The Little Lady of the Big House
2
In the eyes of the world you're entitled to your wild oats.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
3
You probably have seen wild oats growing here, as in the States.
The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
4
In fact, however, this was the youthful giant sowing his wild oats.
The Book-Hunter / A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
5
Intellectual wild oats will thrive in a soil of the strictest morality.'
Desperate Remedies
6
It led him through yellow pasturage, deep with stubble and wild oats.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908
7
It was then but a bit of wild oats, no hanging matter.
Journeys to Bagdad
8
I've sown wild oats, and God knows what the harvest will be.
Half a Rogue
9
Only I wish you had sown those wild oats of yours, George.
Vanity Fair
10
But what did a bachelor's wild oats have to do with her?
The devil she knows
11
Don't you think he is pretty well done with his wild oats?
Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them
12
Sow thy wild oats; and take the best luck that Fate sends thee.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
13
The wild oats on the bank of the creek were four feet high.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
14
That was kid stuff; it was your way of sowing your wild oats.
The Plunderer
15
Young men are expected to sow their wild oats, Miss Murphy.
Tell me, pretty maiden
16
They had evidently reached the terrace through the wild oats by that trail.
Susy, a Story of the Plains
This collocation consists of:
Wild oats through the time
Wild oats across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common