feel one's oats

They're feeling their oats and at that age, nobody can tell them what to do.

It was the sound of a young country feeling its oats.

Feeling his oats, Mason tried to carry the action until the pizza was on the line.

And it is hard to tell the difference, although the alcohol fuel does seem to make the car feel its oats.

Larry was beginning to feel his oats and answer back, was he?

But the Council already seems to be feeling its oats.

Some of the young men might be feeling their oats.

"What people begin to do is really feel their oats," he said.

"The network is feeling its oats right now," he said.

In heading down the stretch of the project, the children seem to be feeling their oats as writers.