"sow one's oats" meaning in English

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      "form": "sows one's oats",
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          "word": "sow one's wild oats"
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          "ref": "2022 November 27, Mike White, “That's Amore”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 5, spoken by Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy), via HBO:",
          "text": "I feel like you sow your oats when you're young, and then you just, you know, you get it out of your system.",
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        "Alternative form of sow one's wild oats."
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "sowing one's oats",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sowed one's oats",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sown one's oats",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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