| 单词 | to feel one's oats |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto feel one's oats P1. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) to feel one's oats: to be lively; to feel self-important. ΚΠ 1831 Boston Evening Transcript 22 Dec. 1/1 Whether the pony felt his oats,..He took a frightful canter. 1869 P. T. Barnum Struggles & Triumphs i. 33 My father..installed me as clerk in this country store. Of course I ‘felt my oats’. 1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 85 I suppose he was feeling his oats when he captained his class eleven. 1947 Hygeia Nov. 939/1 A dynamic run-about met grandparents' eyes instead—boisterous, obstreperous, inclined to obstinacy, obviously feeling her oats. 1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy i. 17 The Manchester circulation is nudging the one and a half million a day mark and they are beginning to feel their oats. 1990 F. Dannen Hit Men (1991) xii. 240 Whether it was the Thriller phenomenon or euphoria over the departure of Dick Asher, Walter must have been feeling his oats when he bid for the Stones. < as lemmas |
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