Where does that question, or saying come from?
o.k. another dumb question
2007-01-02 17:55:47 · 15 answers · asked by ? 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
excerpt from link
"....sowing wild oats was the archetypal useless occupation, indeed worse than useless. It’s not surprising that the phrase sowing wild oats was applied figuratively to young men who frittered away their time in stupid or idle pastimes. But there’s a strong sexual association here, too, because the phrase was often applied, in a more or less indulgent way, and always to young men, to what was politely referred to as youthful dissipation. The associations between male sexual activity and sowing seed are obvious enough."
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sow1.htm
frittering away my time?....yes
youthful dissipation?....already dissipated
2007-01-02 18:02:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My wild oats was sown and reaped a long time ago. As for the derivation of sowing wild oats, the saying is first recorded in English in 1542, in a tract by a Norfolk Protestant clergyman, Thomas Becon, though a related phrase appears in the works of the Roman author Plautus.
It’s common in older English literature, no doubt because the image struck a chord in a society that was still mainly agrarian. Here’s a typical example, from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, of 1869: “Boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles”.
2007-01-03 03:15:00 · answer #2 · answered by Gregnir 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sowing your wild oats is like all the hell-raising you do when you are younger before you have to get responsible. I used to sow some wild oats on here and answer some political and cultural questions on here but they cancelled my entire account. So now I try to be more carefull how I answer. It sucks.
2007-01-03 02:18:20 · answer #3 · answered by Elvis 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
heck yes!!! I don't know where the saying comes from, but I have alot of oats to sow!!!
2007-01-03 02:03:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I used to sow my wild oats.Then go home and pray for a crop failure
2007-01-03 02:14:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
wild oats.. get sown.. in lots of places not just here.. but I heard it in Coming to America with Eddie Murphy..lol
2007-01-03 01:57:38 · answer #6 · answered by TheDudeAbides 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
From a farm hand
I'm still young..everyday.. baby!
2007-01-03 01:57:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've always wondered what that means too.....oh well
2007-01-03 02:00:45 · answer #8 · answered by Lolitta 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because I don't have any and never did.
2007-01-03 02:00:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do
2007-01-03 01:57:31 · answer #10 · answered by Pantherempress 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋