Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.
It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.